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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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2. Secondly, prosperity meeting with a faceless heart, makes it wholly sensual, and •tirely swallows up its thoughts and af•ctions: Earthly things transform and •old their hearts into their own similitude ••d nature: the whole strength of their •••s goes out to those enjoyments. So those faceless, yet prosperous persons are descri••d, Job 21. 11, 12, 13. They take the Timbrel ••d Harp, and rejoice at the sound of the Organ, […] spend their days in wealth; they take the ••mbrel, not the Bible. They rejoice at the sound the Organ, not a word of their rejoicing […] God. They send forth their little ones in the once. That is all the Catechism they are •ught. They spend their days in wealth. Their •••oletime, that precious stock and Talent […] wholly laid out upon these sensitive •ings: either the pleasure of it powerfully •arms them, or the cares of it wholly en•oss their minds; that there is no time to •are for God, They live in pleasure upon earth, […] it is Jam. 5. 5. Just as the fish lives in ⟨p. 60⟩the water its •roper element, take him o• from these things, and put him upon spire tual serious heavenly employments, and […] is Piscis in arido. Like a fish upon the d•• Land.
2. Secondly, prosperity meeting with a •aceless heart, makes it wholly sensual, and tirely swallows up its thoughts and afctions: Earthly things transform and old their hearts into their own similitude d nature: the whole strength of their s goes out to those enjoyments. So those aceless, yet prosperous persons are descrid,