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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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He that is truly gracious may in prosperity remit some degrees, but a Carnal heart there loseth all that which in a low condition he seemed to have. Agurs deprecation as to himself, no doubt was built upon his frequent observation how it was with others, Prov. 30. 8, 9. Lest I be full, and deny God. It's said in Eccles. 5. 12. That the abundance of ⟨p. 59⟩[…] rich will not suffer him to sleep, and I wish •at were the worst injury it did him; but ••s, it will not suffer him to pray, to meditate, allow time and thoughts about his eternal concernments; he falls asleep in the lap of prosperity, and forgets that there is a God to […] served, or a soul to be saved. O this is a dan•rous symptom of a very graceless heart.
He that is truly gracious may in prosperity remit some degrees, but a Carnal heart there loseth all that which in a low condition he seemed to have. Agurs deprecation as to himself, no doubt was built upon his frequent observation how it was with others, Prov. 30. 8, 9. Lest I be full, and deny God. It's said in Eccles. 5. 12. That the abundance of ⟨p. 59⟩〈…〉 rich will not suffer him to sleep, and I wish •at were the worst injury it did him; but ••s, it will not suffer him to pray, to meditate, allow time and thoughts about his eternal ••ncernments; he falls asleep in the lap of ••osperity, and forgets that there is a God to 〈…〉 served, or a soul to be saved. O this is a danrous symptom of a very graceless heart.