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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Hence faith, one branch of sanctification is with respect to its subject, styled the Faith […] Gods Elect, Tit. 1. 1. Whosoever finds true grace in his Soul, may (during the eviden•• thereof) from it strongly conclude his E• lection, looking backward, and his Salvation looking forward, Rom. 8. 30. it marks an• seals the Person in whom it is for glory. Go• hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. 4. 3▪
Hence faith, one branch of sanctification is with respect to its subject, stiled the Faith 〈…〉 Gods Elect, Tit. 1. 1. Whosoever finds tru• grace in his Soul, may (during the eviden•• thereof) from it strongly conclude his E• lection, looking backward, and his Salvatio• looking forward, Rom. 8. 30. it marks an• seals the Person in whom it is for glory. Go• hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. 4. 3▪
4. Fourthly, View the precious worth o grace in its excellent effects and influences up on the soul, in which it inheres.