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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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So it is with many others. If one chil• die, what do they do, run to God and comfort themselves in this, The Lord liveth th• my Child die? If an Estate be lost and a Family sinking, do they with David comfort ⟨p. 77⟩themselves in the everlasting Covenant, order• and sure? No, no; but if one Relation […], there's another alive; if an Estate be ••ne, yet not all: something is left still, and […] case will mend.
So it is with many others. If one chil• die, what do they do, run to God and com•fort themselves in this, The Lord liveth th• my Child die? If an Estate be lost and a Fa•mily sinking, do they with David comfor• ⟨p. 77⟩••emselves in the everlasting Covenant, order• and sure? No, no; but if one Relation 〈…〉, there's another alive; if an Estate be ••ne, yet not all: something is left still, and 〈…〉 case will mend.
As long as ever such Men have any visible encouragement, they will hang upon it; and •ot make up all in Christ, and encourage themselves in the Lord. To tell them of rejoicing in the Lord, when the Fig tree blossoms not, is what they cannot understand.