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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 6
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CHAP. VI.
••ewing Indwelling sin to be to grace, what fire is to gold; and how the soundness and unsoundness of our hearts are discovered by our Carriage toward it.
SECT. 1.
•ECT. 1.
Prosperity and adversity put sincerity to the trial, but nothing •akes a deeper search into our bosoms, ••thing sifts our spirits more narrowly, or •lls us what our state is more plainly than […] behaviour towards that corruption that wells in us; the thorn is next neighbour […] the rose: sin and grace dwell not only […] the same soul, but in the same faculties. •he Collier and Fuller dwell in one room, •hat one cleanseth the other blacks: of […] the evils God permits in this world, none […] more grievous to his people than this: ••ey sometimes wonder why the Lord will ffer it to be so; why, surely among other ise and holy ends of this permission, these e some.