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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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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⟩7. 19, 20. Is this the manner of men, O Lord God! and what can David say more unto thee! an expression that turns up the very bottom of his heart.
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 boyle 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⟩7. 19, 20. Is this the manner of men, O Lord God! and what can David say more unto thee! an expression that turns up the very bottom of his heart.