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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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THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 2 › Section 4
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2. Secondly, Don't make this use of it, tha• assurance must needs be impossible, becau•• so many Professors are found to be Self deceivers.
2. Secondly, Don't make this use of it, tha• assurance must needs be impossible, becau•• so many Professors are found to be Self de•ceivers.
That assurance is one of the great difficulties in Religion, is a great truth; but that is therefore unattainable in this World, is •ery false. Popish Doctrine indeed makes it possible, but that Doctrine is practically •nfuted in the comfortable experience • many Souls: all are commanded to ••ive for it: 2 Pet. 1. 10. give diligence to •ake your calling and Election sure: and some •ave the happiness to obtain it: 2 Tim. 1. 12. […] I know whom I have believed, and I am pervaded that he is able to keep that which I have ••mmitted unto him against that day.
That assurance is one of the great diffi••lties in Religion, is a great truth; but that is therefore unattainable in this World, is •ery false. Popish Doctrine indeed makes it •possible, but that Doctrine is practically nfuted in the comfortable experience many Souls: all are commanded to ive for it: