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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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6. Sixthly, Consider it in its design & scope; and you will still discern more and more of its precious excellency: for what is the aim and end of God in the infusions and improvements of Grace, but to attemper and mould our Spirits by it, into a meetness and fitness for the enjoyment of himself in the world to come? Col. 1. 12. giving thanks to the Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light▪ compare this with 2 Cor. 5. 5. now he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God.
O blessed design! how precious must that work be, which is wrought for so high and glorious a purpose as this is! no work mor• excellent, no end more noble.
7. Seventhly, Consider the means and ••• struments both principal, and subordinate, i•• ployed in this work: many blessed instr ••ments are set on work to beget, conserve and improve it in our souls: and these […] speak the precious worth of it: no wise ma• will dig for a base and worthless metal, wit• golden mattocks. The blood of Christ w•• shed to procure it, Heb. 13. 12.