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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.
(1.) It adorns it with incomparable Orna• ments, which are of great price in the sigh• of God, 1 Pet. 3. 4. yea it reflects such beam• of Glory in the soul where its seat is, Tha• Christ himself the Author, is also the Admire• of it, Cant. 4. 9. Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart, wit• one of thine eyes, with one of th• chains of the neck. And as one overcome with its excelling beauty, he saith, Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me, Cant. 6. 5.
(2.) It Elevates and ennobles a Mans Spirit beyond all other principles in Man. It se•• ⟨p. 39⟩[…] heart and affections upon Heaven, and […] them up with the glory of the invisible ••rld, Phil. 3. 20. But our conversation is in ••ven, from whence we look for a Saviour. ••il'st others are trading for Corn, & Wine; […] Sheep and Oxen; for Feathers & Trifles; […] gracious Soul is trading with God for par••• and peace; for Righteousness and Life; […] Glory and Immortality. Truly our fellow•• is with the Father, and with his Son Christ […],