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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 Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 3 › Section 2
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SECT. II.
Containing six practical inferences from this Precious Truth.
Infer. 1. Is saving grace more precious than Gold? Let them that have it bless God for it, & not boast: Mens hearts are as apt to puff up and swell with spiritual, as with material gold: it's hard to be an owner of much of this gold, and not be lifted up with it. To keep down thy heart, and preserve thine eyes from being▪ dazzled with these their gracious excellencies; it will be needful for thee Christian sometime to consider,
Infer. 1. Is saving grace more precious than Gold? Let them that have it bless God for it, & not boast: Mens hearts are as apt to puff up and swell with spiritual, as with material gold: it's hard to be an owner of much of this gold, and not be lifted up with it. To keep down thy heart, and preserve thine eyes from being▪ dazled with these their gracious excellencies; it will be needful for thee Christian sometime to consider,