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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 5 › Section 2
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IT will be expedient to the design I manage in this discourse, to show in the first place what are common effects of adversity to both the godly and ungodly, for in some things they differ not, but as it is with the one, so also with the other: as,
IT will be expedient to the design I manage in this discourse, to shew in the first place what are common effects of adversity to both the godly and ungodly, for in some things they differ not, but as it is with the one, so also with the other: as,
1. First, Both the godly and ungodly may fear▪ Adversity before it comes. To be sure a wicked man cannot, and it's evident many godly men do not come up to the height of that rule, Jam. 1. 2. To account it all Joy when they fall into divers temptations, or trials by Adversity.
1. First, Both the godly and ungodly may fear▪ Adversity before it comes. To be sure a wicked man cannot, and it's evident many godly men do not come up to the height of that rule, Iam. 1. 2. To account it all Ioy when they fall into divers temptations, or trials by Adversity.
'Tis said, Isa. 33. 14. The sinners in Zion are ⟨p. 69⟩afraid, trembling surpriseth the Hypocrite. Namely, under the apprehension of approaching calamities: and it's true also, the Saints in Zion may be afraid: my flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgements; said holy David,