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…

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.

2. Secondly, Prosperity usually draws forth the Saints love to the God of their mercies that which heats a wicked mans lusts, warm• a gracious mans heart with love and delight in God.

These were the words of that lovely song which David sang in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he said, I will love thee O Lord my strength• Psalm 18. Title and v. 1. compared: these outward things are not the main grounds and motives of their love to God; no, no, they love him when he takes away, as well, as when he gives: but they are sanctified instrument• to inflame their love to God: they boil up a wicked mans lusts, but they melt a gracious mans soul. O in what a pang of love did David go into the presence of God under the sense of his mercies? his melting mercies; when he thus poured out his whole soul in a stream of love to his God, 2 Sam ⟨p. 65⟩