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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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4. Fourthly, Afflictions use to melt an• humble gracious hearts: there is an habitual tenderness planted in their spirits, and […] just occasion quickly draws it forth: and so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation: the effect put for the cause; to show where one is, the other will be: 2 Cor. 12▪ 21. My God will humble me, (i. e.) he wil• afflict me with the sight of your si•s, and disorders: and if a gracious soul b• so ap• to be humbled for other mens sins, much more for his own.
4. Fourthly, Afflictions use to melt an• humble gracious hearts: there is an habitu•al tenderness planted in their spirits, and 〈…〉 just occasion quickly draws it forth: and so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation: the effect put for the cause; to shew where one is, the other will be: 2 Cor. 12▪ 21. My God will humble me, (i. e.) he wil• afflict me with the sight of your si•s, and disorders: and if a gracious soul b• so ap• to be humbled for other mens sins, much more for his own.
5. Fifthly, The upright soul is inquisitive