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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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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.
Nay, we speak not becoming the inco•• parable worth of grace, when we say, it is […] fruit and birth of the Spirit; for so are co•• mon gifts also. There are several emanati•• from this Sun, divers streams from this fo•• tain; but of all his operations and produ•••• once, this of saving grace is the most noble […] excellent. Gifts are from the spirit as we•• grace, but grace is more excellent than […] best gifts, 1 Cor. 12. 31. covet earnestly the […] gifts, and yet show I unto you a more exce•••• way. Hence you read in Phil. 1. 10. of th•• that are excellent, or as the original, [Greek or Hebrew] might be rendered, things that […] Namely, in respect of excellency; no• good and evil, but as less good, and […] good differ. Gifts have their value and […] ciousness, but the best gifts differ as […] from grace, as brass from gold; though […] be generated by the influence of same […] Gifts (as one saith) are dead graces, but […] are living gifts: it is the most excel•••• production of the highest and most ex•••• lent cause.
Nay, we speak not becoming the inco•• parable worth of grace, when we say, it is 〈…〉 fruit and birth of the Spirit; for so are co•• mon gifts also. There are several emanati•• from this Sun, divers streams from this fo•• tain; but of all his operations and produ•••• ons, this of saving grace is the most noble 〈…〉 excellent. Gifts are from the spirit as we grace, but grace is more excellent than best gifts,