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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 5
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1. First, Under prosperity, success and honour, the upright heart will labour to suppress pride, and keep it self lowly & humble▪ ⟨p. 63⟩and still the more grace there is, the more humility there will be. If God lift him up, he will lay himself low, and exalt his God high. So did Jacob when God had raised & enlarged him, Gen. 32. 10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant, for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two •ands.
1. First, Under prosperity, success and honour, the upright heart will labour to suppress pride, and keep it self lowly & humble▪ ⟨p. 63⟩and still the more grace there is, the more humility there will be. If God lift him up, he will lay himself low, and exalt his God high. So did Iacob when God had raised & enlarged him, Gen. 32. 10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant, for with my staff I passed over this Iordan, and now I am become two •ands.
Great was the difference in Jacobs outward condition at his return, from what it was at first passage over Jordan: then poor, now rich; then single and comfortless, now the head of a great family. Yea, but though his outward estate was altered, the frame of his heart was not altered. Jacob was an holy and humble man when he went out, & so he was when he returned: he saw a multitude of mercies about him, and among them all, not one but was greater than himself.