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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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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.
As long as ever such Men have any visible ••couragement, they will hang upon it; and •ot make up all in Christ, and encourage ••emselves in the Lord. To tell them of re••ycing in the Lord, when the Fig tree blos••ms not, is what they cannot understand.
5. Fifthly, To conclude, An unsound heart •ever comes out of the Furnace of affliction ••rged, mortified, and more spiritual and ho•• than when he was cast into it: his scum […] dross is not there separated from him: •ay the more they are afflicted, the worse ••ey are. Why should ye be smitten any more? ye •ill revolt more and more, Isa. 1. 5. and to •eep to our Metaphor, consult Jer. 6. 29. •od had put that incorrigible people into •e Furnace of affliction, and kept them long […] that fire; and what was the Issue? why, ••ith the Prophet, The bellows are burnt, •e lead is consumed of the fire, the founder melh in vain, &c. reprobate silver shall men call em, because the Lord hath rejected them.