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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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'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, Psal. 119. 120. & Job 3. 23. The thing which I greatly feared (saith that upright soul) is come upon me: there is a vast difference betwixt a Saints first meeting with afflictions, and his parting with them: he entertains them sometimes with trembling, he parts with them rejoicing, smiling on them, and blessing them in the name of the Lord. So that by this the upright, and the false heart, are not discriminated: even sanctified nature declines sufferings and troubles.
'Tis said, Isa. 33. 14. The sinners in Sion are ⟨p. 69⟩afraid, trembling surprizeth the Hypocrite. Namely, under the apprehension of approaching calamities: and it's true also, the Saints in Sion may be afraid: my flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgements; said holy David, Psal. 119. 120. & Iob 3. 23. The thing which I greatly feared (saith that upright soul) is come upon me: there is a vast difference betwixt a Saints first meeting with afflictions, and his parting with them: he entertains them sometimes with trembling, he parts with them rejoycing, smiling on them, and blessing them in the name of the Lord. So that by this the upright, and the false heart, are not discriminated: even sanctified nature declines sufferings and troubles.