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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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Now, though grace make a great difference betwixt one and another, yet I dare not say, but even a gracious heart may be very unquiet and tumultuous in the day of affliction. Sanctified souls have their Passions and Lusts which are too little mortified, even as Sweet-briar, and Holy-thistles have their prickles, as well as the worthless bramble. Jonah was a good Man, yet his Soul was sadly distempered by adverse providences: Jonah 4. 9. Yea (saith he, and that to his God) I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Now, though grace make a great difference betwixt one and another, yet I dare not say, but even a gracious heart may be very unquiet and tumultuous in the day of affliction. Sanctified souls have their Passions and Lusts which are too little mortified, even as Sweet-bryar, and Holy-thistles have their prickles, as well as the worthless bramble. Ionah was a good Man, yet his Soul was sadly distempered by adverse providences: Ionah 4. 9. Yea (saith he, and that to his God) I do well to be angry, even unto death.
4. Fourthly, Both the one and the •ther may be weary of the rod, and think the day ⟨p. 71⟩of adversity a tedious day, wishing it were once at an end. Babylon shall be weary of the evil that God will bring upon it, Jer 51. ult, and oh that none of Scions Children were weary of adversity too! How sad a moan doth Job make of his long continued affliction, Job 16. 6, 7. though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased? but now he hath made me weary.
4. Fourthly, Both the one and the •ther may be weary of the rod, and think the day ⟨p. 71⟩