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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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2. Secondly, He sees, and owns the hand of •od in his afflictions: how much or little •ever of the instruments of trouble appear. […] Lord hath taken away, saith Job, Job 1. •. God hath bidden him, saith David▪ 2 ••m. 16. 10. If the blow come from the •nd of a wicked man, yet he sees that ••cked hand in Gods righteous hand, Psal, •. 14. And this apprehension is fundamental […] all that communion men have with God •heir afflictions, & to all that peaceableness, ••gracious submission of their spirits under […] rod, he that sees nothing of God in his trou••s, hath nothing of God in his soul.
2. Secondly, He sees, and owns the hand of •od in his afflictions: how much or little •ever of the instruments of trouble appear. 〈…〉 Lord hath taken away, saith Iob, Iob 1. •. God hath bidden him, saith David▪ 2 ••m. 16. 10. If the blow come from the •nd of a wicked man, yet he sees that ••cked hand in Gods righteous hand, Psal, •. 14. And this apprehension is fundamental 〈…〉 all that communion men have with God •heir affl•ctions, & to all that peaceableness, gracious submission of their spirits under rod, he that sees nothing of God in his trous, hath nothing of God in his soul.