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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 7 › Section 2
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An Hypocrite aims Low, Hosea 7. 14. They have not cried unto me with their heart, when they •owled upon their beds; they assembled themselves for Corn and Wine, and they rebel against me. It is not for Christ, and pardon, •or mortification, and holiness; but for corn, and wine, thus they make a Market of Religion; all their ends in duty are either carnal, natural, or legal; it is either to accommodate their carnal ends, or satisfy and quiet their Consciences: and so their duties are performed as a sin-offering to God.
An Hypocrite aims Low, Hosea 7. 14. They have not cried unto me with their heart, when they •owled upon their beds; they assembled themselves for Corn and Wine, and they rebel against me. It is not for Christ, and pardon, •or mortification, and holiness; but for corn, and wine, thus they make a Market of Re•igion; all their ends in duty are either carnal, natural, or legal; it is either to accommodate their carnal ends, or satisfie and quiet their Consciences: and so their duties are performed as a sin-offering to God.
But an upright heart, hath very high, and pure aims in duty; the desire of their •oul is to God, Isa. 26. 8. their soul follows •ard after God, Psal. 63. 8. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I might dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to see the beauty of the Lord; and to enquire in his Temple,