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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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2. Secondly, Consider it in its nature, […] ⟨p. 37⟩••u will find it Divine▪ 2 Pet. 1. 4. partakers […] the Divine Nature, viz. in our Sanctificati•• not that it gives us the Properties of the divine nature, they are incommunicable; ••t the similitude, and resemblance of it is ••amped upon our souls, in the work of grace.
2. Secondly, Consider it in its nature, 〈…〉 ⟨p. 37⟩••u will find it Divine▪ 2 Pet. 1. 4. partakers 〈…〉 the Divine Nature, viz. in our Sanctificati•• not that it gives us the Properties of the ••ivine nature, they are incommunicable; ••t the similitude, and resemblance of it is ••amped upon our souls, in the work of grace.
The new man is renewed in knowledge, after ••e image of him that created him, Col. 3. 10. The Schoolmen and some of the Fathers place ••is image or resemblance of God, in the natural faculties of the soul, viz. the understanding, memory and will; which is an umbrage of a Trinity in Unity: but it rather consists in the renovation of the Faculties by race; for in this we bear the Divine Image upon our Souls, and that Image or Resemblance of God in Holiness, is the beauty d honour of our Souls.