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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 4
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CHAP. IV.
Wherein the third Doctrine, being the main subject of this Treatise is opened, and the method of the whole discourse stated.
Doct. 3. That only is to be accounted true grace which is able to endure all those trials appointed or permitted for the discovery of it.
Doct. 3. That only is to be accounted true grace which is able to endure all those tryals appointed or permitted for the discovery of it.
SECT. I.
THE most wise God hath seen it fit to set all his people in a state of trial in this world. First, he tries, and then he Crowns them. Jam. 1. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, [Greek or Hebrew], (i. e.) probation or trial] for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, &c.