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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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5. Fifthly, View it in its properties, and you will soon discover its transcendent excellencies: the richest Epithets are no Hyperboles here, we speak not beyond the value of it, when we call it Supernatural Grace, for so it is. It comes down from above, from the Father of Lights, Jam. 1. 17. nature can never be improved to that height, how much soever its Admirers boast of it: nor do we strain too high, when we call it immortal grace; for so God hath made it: this is that water which springs up in the sanctified soul into eternal life, John 4. 14. It will not dye when thou diest, but ascend with the soul ⟨p. 41⟩from which it is inseparable; and be swallowed up with it into glory, Rom. 8. 10. you may out live your friends, you may outlive your Estates, you may out-live your Gifts; but you can't out-live your Graces.
5. Fifthly, View it in its properties, and you will soon discover its transcendent excellencies: the richest Epithets are no Hyperboles here, we speak not beyond the value of it, when we call it Supernatural Grace, for so it is. It comes down from above, from the Father of Lights, Iam. 1. 17. nature can never be improved to that height, how much soever its Admirers boast of it: nor do we strain too high, when we call it immortal grace; for so God hath made it: this is that water which springs up in the sanctified soul into eternal life, Iohn 4. 14. It will not dye when thou diest, but ascend with the soul ⟨p. 41⟩from which it is inseparable; and be swallowed up with it into glory, Rom. 8. 10. you may out live your friends, you may outlive your Estates, you may out-live your Gifts; but you can't out-live your Graces.