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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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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: Jer. 37. 9. See the like in Aba•• in a sore plunge and distress he Courts th• King of Assyria for help, 2 Chron, 22. 28, 2•• That project failing, why then he will tr• what the Gods of Damascus can do for him▪ any way rather than the right way, Flecter• si nequeam superos, Acheronta movebo.
Thus Zedekiah and the self-deceivin• Iews, when they saw their own strengt• failed them, and there was little hope le•• that they should deliver themselves from th• •haldeans, what do they in that strait? D• they with upright Iehosaphat 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: Ier. 37. 9