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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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3. Thirdly, He can justify God in all th• afflictions and troubles that come up• on him, be they never so severe. Thou ar• just in all that is brought upon us, saith Nehemiah Nehem. 9. 33. Thou hast punished us less tha• our iniquities deserve, saith Ezra, Ezra 9. 13▪ It is of the Lords mercy we are not consumed, saith the Church, Lam. 3. 22. Are we in Babylon? it's a mercy we are not in hell. If God condemn him, yet he will justify God: if God cast him into a sea of trouble, yet he will acknowledge in all that sea of trouble, there i• not one drop of injustice. If I have not deserved such usage from the hands of men• yet I have deserved worse than this at the hands of God.
3. Thirdly, He can justifie God in all th• afflictions and troubles that come up• on him, be they never so severe. Thou ar• just in all that is brought upon us, saith Nehemiah• Nehem. 9. 33. Thou hast punished us less tha• our iniquities deserve, saith Ezra, Ezra 9. 13▪ It is of the Lords mercy we are not consumed, saith the Church, Lam. 3. 22. Are we in Babylon? it's a mercy we are not in hell. If God con•demn him, yet he will justifie God: if God cast him into a sea of trouble, yet he will acknowledge in all that sea of trouble, there i not one drop of injustice. If I have not deserved such usage from the hands of men yet I have deserved worse than this at the hands of God.