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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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Infer. 3. Is Saving Grace Gold, yea infinitely more precious than Gold? then surely declining Christians are great losers, and have cause to be great mourners. The remission of the least degree of Grace, is more to be lamented than the loss of the greatest sum of Gold.
Though the habits of Grace be not lost; yet the Acts of Grace may be suspended, 2 Sam 12. 31. The degrees of grace may be remitted, Rev. 3. 3. The evidences of grace may be clouded, and consequently the Comforts of grace may be suspended, Isa. 50. 10. and the least of these is such a loss, as all the treasures of the Earth cannot repair: well therefore may declined Christians challenge the first place among all the mourners in the world.
Infer. 4. Is grace so invaluably precious? How precious then ought the ordinances of God to be to our souls, by which grace is first communicated, and afterwards improved in our souls! The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver, Psal. 119. 72. and good reason, whilst it imparts and improves that to which Gold and Silver is but dross and dung.
Infer. 4. Is grace so invaluably precious? How precious then ought the ordinances of God to be to our souls, by which grace is first communicated, and afterwards improved in our souls! The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver, Psal. 119. 72. and good reason, whilest it imparts and improves that to which Gold and Silver is but d•oss and dung.