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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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Secondly, A Passive trial of it: whether we try it or no, God will t•y it, he will bring our gold to the touchstone, and to the fire. Thou O Lord knowest me, thou hast seen me and tried mine heart towards thee, saith the Prophet, Jer. 12. 3.
Secondly, A Passive tryal of it: whether we try it or no, God will t•y it, he will bring our gold to the touchstone, and to the fire. Thou O Lord knowest me, thou hast seen me and tryed mine heart towards thee, saith the Prophet, Ier. 12. 3.
Sometimes he tries the strength and ab• lity of his servants graces, and thus he try Abraham, Heb. 11. 17. and sometimes […] tries the soundness and sincerity of our grace so the Ephesian Angel was tried, and foun• dross, Rev. 2. 2. And so Job was tried an• found true gold, Job 23. 10. These trials a• not made by God for his own information for he knows what is in man, his eyes pier• his heart and reins; but for our information which is the true sense of Deut. 8. 2. Th• shalt remember all the way which the Lord th• God led thee these forty years in the wilderness humble thee, and to prove thee, to know wh was in thy heart, (i. e.) to make thee know it, by giving thee such experiments and try als of it in those wilderness straits and di ficulties.