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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 › Section 1
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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.
THE most wise God hath seen it fit to set all his people in a state of tryal in this world. First, he tryes, and then he Crowns them. Jam. 1. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, (i. e.) probation or tryal] for when he is tryed, he shall receive the crown of life, &c.
No man can say what he is, whether his graces be true or false, till they be tried and examined by those things which are to them as fire is to gold. These self-deceivers in the Text, thought they had grace; yea they thought they had been rich in grace; but it proved no better than dross: and therefore Christ here counsels them to buy of him gold tried in the fire, (i. e.) true grace indeed, which appears to be so upon the various proofs and examinations of its sincerity which are to be made in this world, as well as in the great solemn trial it must come to in the world to come.