A39695:143
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
••CT. I.
THE Lord Jesus here chooseth the most pure, precious, re•endent, durable, and valuable thing, in […] the Treasuries, and magazines of Nature, […] shadow forth saving Grace, which is finitely more excellent: certainly that ••ft be the best thing, which the best •••ngs in Nature can but imperfectly sha••w forth. What was the golden Oil emp•d through the two golden pipes, Zech. 4. but the precious Graces of God, flowing ••ough Christ, into all his Members! Gold precious, but one drachm of saving grace more precious than all the Gold of Ophir. cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver weighed for the price thereof, Job 28. 15. •ely Gold and Silver, Sapphires, Diamonds […] Rubies are not worth the mentioning, ••en saving Grace is once mentioned. For •••sider it,
THE Lord Iesus here chooseth the most pure, precious, re•endent, durable, and valuable thing, in 〈…〉 the Treasuries, and magazines of Nature, 〈…〉 shadow forth saving Grace, which is ••nitely more excellent: certainly that ••ft be the best thing, which the best •••ngs in Nature can but imperfectly sha••w forth. What was the golden Oyl empd through the two golden pipes,