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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. 5. If Grace be so precious how watchful should all gracious persons be in the dates of temptation! the design of temptation is to rob you of your treasure: when Cut-purses get into the crowd, we use to say; Friends, look to your purses. How many brave Christians have we read and heard of, that have rather chosen to part with their lives, than with their graces, who have resisted unto blood, striving against sin? Heb. 12. 4.
Infer. 5. If Grace be so precious how watchful should all gracious persons be in the dates of temptation! the design of temptation is to rob you of your treasure: when Cut-purses get into the croud, we use to say; Friends, look to your purses. How many brave Christians have we read and heard of, that have rather chosen to part with their lives, than with their graces, who have resisted unto blood, striving against sin? Heb. 12. 4.
O Christians, you live in a cheating Age, many seeming Christians have lost all, and many real Christians have lost much so much, that they are like to see but little comfort in this World: who are like to go mourning to the Grave with that Lamentation, Job. 29. 2, 3. O that it were with me as in times past!
O Christians, you live in a cheating Age, many seeming Christians have lost all, and many real Christians have lost much so much, that they are like to see but little comfort in this World: who are like to go mourning to the Grave with that Lamentation, Iob. 29. 2, 3. O that it were with me as in times past!