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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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And Lastly, remember he that is most proud and conceited of his own graces, will be found to be the owner of least grace, and hath most cause to question, whether he have any or no. It's the nature of grace to humble, abase and empty the Soul; and it's the strength of our Corruptions which thus puffs us up with vain conceits.
Infer. 2. Is Saving Grace more excellent than gold? what cause then have the poorest Christians to be well satisfied with their lot? To others God hath given Ishmael's portion the fatness of the Earth; to you Isaac's, the graces of their Covenant: the portion is paid in brass, yours in gold: many of you are poor in the World, but rich in faith; and heirs of the Kingdom which God hath promised, Jam. 2. 5. what is the dust of the Earth, to the fruits of the Spirit? you are troubled that you have no more of the World; it may be if you had more gold, you would have less grace: you consider not how many are poor & wretched in both worlds; moneyless, and Christless too: you don't consider you are near come to that state, in which all your wants will be fully supplied; where you shall not need the treasures of the ⟨p. 46⟩Earth, and have your desires satisfied out of the treasures of grace and glory.
Infer. 2. Is Saving Grace more excellent than gold? what cause then have the poorest Christians to be well satisfied with their lot? To others God hath given Ishmael's portion the fatness of the Earth; to you Isaac's, the graces of their Covenant: the portion is paid in brass, yours in gold: many of you are poor in the World, but rich in faith; and heirs of the Kingdom which God hath promised, Jam. 2. 5. what is the dust of the Earth, to the fruits of the Spirit? you are troubled that you have no more of the World; it may be if you had more gold, you would have less grace: you consider not how many are poor & wretched in both worlds; moneyless, and Christless too: you don't consider you are near come to that state, in which all your wants will be fully supply'd; where you shall not need the treasures of the