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The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened…The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened…
The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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Rule 4.
A greater backwardness and indisposedness to one duty rather than another, doth not conclude the heart to be unsound and false with God, provided we do not inwardly dislike and disapprove any duty of Religion, or except against it in our agreement with Christ, but that it riseth merely from the present weakness and distemper we labour under.
A greater backwardness and indisposedness to one duty rather than another, doth not conclude the heart to be unsound and false with God, provided we do not inwardly dislike and disapprove any duty of Religion, or except against it in our agreement with Christ, but that it riseth meerly from the present weakness and distemper we labour under.
There be some duties in Religion, as sufferings for Christ, bearing sharp reproofs for sin, &c. that even an upright heart, under a present distemper may find a great deal of backwardness and loathness to; yet still he consents to the Law that it is good, is troubled that he cannot comply more cheerfully with his duty: and desires to stand complete in all the will of God: perfection is his aim, and imperfections are his sorrows.
There be some duties in Religion, as sufferings for Christ, bearing sharp reproofs for sin, &c. that even an upright heart, under a present distemper may find a great deal of backwardness and lothness to; yet still he consents to the Law that it is good, is troubled that he cannot comply more cheerfully with his duty: and desires to stand compleat in all the will of God: perfection is his aim, and imperfections are his sorrows.