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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 4
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SECT IV.
BY this time, Reader, I suppose thou ar• desirous to know what effects adversity and afflictions use to have when they mee• with an honest and sincere heart; only before I come to particulars, I think it needfu•• to acquaint thee, That the fruits of afflictions are mostly after-fruits, and not so discerna•••• ⟨p. 79⟩by the Christian himself under the rod, […] after he hath been exercised by it, Heb. ••. 11. and calmly reflects upon what is past; […] doth every Christian attain the same easure and degree: some rejoice, others •mmonly submit: but I think these seven sects are ordinarily found in all upright hearts that pass under the rod.
BY this time, Reader, I suppose thou ar• desirous to know what effects adversit• and afflictions use to have when they mee• with an honest and sincere heart; only be•fore I come to particulars, I think it needfu•• to acquaint thee, That the fruits of afflictions are mostly after-fruits, and not so discerna•••• ⟨p. 79⟩by the Christian himself under the rod, 〈…〉 after he hath been exercised by it, Heb. ••. 11. and calmly reflects upon what is past; 〈…〉 doth every Christian attain the same easure and degree: some rejoyce, others mmonly submit: but I think these seven ects are ordinarily found in all upright earts that pass under the rod.