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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 4
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Prosperity discovers many sad symptoms of a naughty heart, and among others these are ordinarily most conspicuous.
PRosperity discovers many sad symptomes of a naughty heart, and among others these are ordinarily most conspicuous.
1. First, It casts the hearts of some men into a deep oblivion of God, and makes them lay aside all care of duty: rare fumant faelicibus Arae. The Altars of rich men seldom smoke, Deut. 32. 13, 14, 15. Jesurun sucked honey out of the rock, eat the fat of Lambs, and kidneys of wheat; but what was the effect of this? he kicked, and forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation; instead of lifting up their hearts▪ in an humble thankful acknowledgement of Gods bounty, they lifted up the heel in a wanton abuse of his mercy: in the fattest earth we find the most slippery footing.
1. First, It casts the hearts of some men into a deep oblivion of God, and makes them lay aside all care of duty: rare fumant faelicibus Arae. The Altars of rich menseldom smoke, Deut. 32. 13, 14, 15. Iesurun sucked honey out of the rock, eat the fat of Lambs, and kidneys of wheat; but what was the effect of this? he kicked, and forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation; instead of lifting up their hearts▪ in an humble thankful acknowledgment of Gods bounty, they lifted up the heel in a wanton abuse of his mercy: in the fattest earth we find the most slippery footing.