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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 3
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4. Fourthly, It is the property of an un•• generate soul under adversity to turn fro• creature to creature for support and comfort, and not from every creature to Go• alone. So long as their feet can touch ground I mean feel any creature relief or comfort under them, they can subsist and live in a• flictions; but when they lose ground, the• all creature refuge fails, then their hearts fail too.
4. Fourthly, It is the property of an un•• generate soul under adversity to turn fro• creature to creature for support and comfort, and not from every creature to Go• alone. So long as their feet can touch groun• I mean feel any creature relief or comfor• under them, they can subsist and live in a• flictions; but when they lose ground, the• all creature refuge fails, then their hearts fail too.
Thus Zedekiah and the self-deceiving Jews, when they saw their own strength failed them, and there was little hope le•• that they should deliver themselves from th• chaldeans, what do they in that strait? D• they with upright Jehoshaphat say, our eyes […] unto thee? No, no, their eyes were upon • gupt for succour, not upon Heaven: Wel•, Pharaoh and his aids are left still, all hope• is not gone: