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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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I dare not say every Christian under prosperity can at all times manifest like humility; but I am sure what pride and vanity soever may rise in a gracious heart tried by prosperity, there's that within him, will give check to it: he dare not suffer such proud thoughts to lodge quietly in his heart: for alas he sees that in himself, and that in his God that will abase him; grace will make him look back to his original condition, & say with David, What am I O Lord God, and what ⟨p. 64⟩is my fathers house; that thou hast brought me hitherto? 2 Sam. 7. 18.
I dare not say every Christian under prosperity can at all times manifest like humility; but I am sure what pride and vanity soever may rise in a gracious heart tryed by prosperity, there's that within him, will give check to it: he dare not suffer such proud thoughts to lodge quietly in his heart: for a•as he sees that in himself, and that in his God that will abase him; grace will make him look back to his original condition, & say with David, What am I O Lord God, and what ⟨p. 64⟩is my fathers house; that thou hast brought me hitherto? 2 Sam. 7. 18.
It will make him look in, & see the baseness of his own heart, and the Corruptions that are there, and admire at the Dealings of God with so vile a Creature. O thinks he, […] others did but know what I know of my self they would abhor me more than now they esteem and value me.
It will make him look in, & see the baseness of his own heart, and the Corruptions that are there, and admire at the Dealings of God with so vile a Creature. O thinks he, 〈…〉 others did but know what I know of my self they would abhor me more than now they esteem and value me.