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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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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, 1 Pet. 3. 4. no service finds acceptation with God, but what is performed by grace: none but sanctified vessels, are meet for the Masters use. The end of the Commandment is Charity, out of a pure heart, 1 Tim▪ 1. 5.
8. Eightly, The high value that the most high God sets upon grace, shews it to be an excellent thing indeed: it is of great price in his sight, 1 Pet. 3. 4. no service finds acceptation with God, but what is performed by grace: none but sanctified vessels, are meet for the Masters use. The end of the Commandment is Charity, out of a pure heart, 1 Tim▪ 1. 5.
The weakest performances of grace find acceptance with him, though clogged with many sinful weaknesses and infirmities, Heb. 11. 31, 32. if God so prize it, well may we: he that made the Jewel, best understands the value of it.
The weakest performances of grace find acceptance with him, though clog'd with many sinful weaknesses and infirmities, Heb. 11. 31, 32. if God so prize it, well may we: he that made the Iewel, best understands the value of it.
9. Ninthly, The Hypocritical pretences made to it all over the professing world, show what a most precious and desirable thing it is: if there were not some singular glory in it, why doth every one covet to be reputed gracious? nay the Devil himself baits many of his hooks of temptation with a show of grace: for he knows sin hath no native beauty of its own to entice; and therefore he borrows the paint and pretence of holiness, to cover it: but O what a dilemma will the Hypocrite be posed with at last? and how can he answer it when God shall demand.