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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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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.
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, conserv• 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.
The Spirit of God is sent forth to form an• create it; for it is his own workmanship Ephes. 2. 10. his fruit, Gal. 5. 22.