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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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This text speaks of such persons as hold the foundation of Christianity, but yet superstructed such doctrines and practices, as were no more able to endure the Trial, than hay, 1wood, or stubble can endure the fire. Such a person hereby brings himself into danger, and though the Apostle will not deny the possibility, yet he asse•ts the difficulty of his salvation: he shall be saved, 2yet so as by fire, (i. e.) as a man is saved by leaping out of his house at midnight when it is all on fire about his ears: for so that phrase imports, Amos 4. 11. and Jude 23. glad to escape naked, and with the loss of his goods, blessing God, he hath his life for a prey: as little regard shall such have to their ⟨p. 51⟩erroneous notions, and unscriptural opinions at last.
This text speaks of such persons as hold the foundation of Christianity, but yet superstructed such doctrines and practices, as were no more able to endure the Tryal, than hay, 1wood, or stubble can endure the fire. Such a person hereby brings himself into danger, and though the Apostle will not deny the possibllity, yet he asse•ts the difficulty of his salvation: he shall be saved, 2yet so as by fire, (i. e.) as a man is saved by leaping out of his house at midnight when it is all on fire about his ears: for so that phrase imports, Amos 4. 11. and Iude 23. glad to escape naked, and with the loss of his goods, blessing God, he hath his life for a prey: as little regard shall such have to their ⟨p. 51⟩