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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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The Ordinances and Officers of the Gosp•• were at first instituted, and ever since continued in the Church, for this works sake John 17. 17. and Eph. 4. 12. it's the fruit […] Christs blood; yea, and it hath cost the swea• and blood of the dispensers of the Gospel too▪
The Ordinances and Officers of the Gosp•• were at first instituted, and ever since continued in the Church, for this works sake Iohn 17. 17. and Eph. 4. 12. it's the fruit 〈…〉 Christs blood; yea, and it hath cost the swea• and blood of the dispensers of the Gospel too▪
Nay, all the works of Providence look this way; and aim at this thing, Rom. 8. 28. What is the errand of all Gods rods, but to make us partakers of his holiness? Heb. 12. 10▪
8. Eighthly, The high value that the most high God sets upon grace, shows it to be an excellent thing indeed: it is of great price in his sight,