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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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2. Secondly, The engagements of men• hearts to God in duties will tell them wha• they are. The hypocrite takes little heed to• his heart, Esa. 29. 13. they are not afflicted really for the hardness, deadness, unbelief▪ and wanderings of their hearts in duty; as upright ones are: nor do they engage thei• hearts, and labour to get them up with God• in duty as his people do. I have intreate• thy favour with my whole heart, saith David. Psal. 119. 58. they are not pleased in duty till they feel their hearts stand towards God like a bow in its full bent. I say not it is always so with them, what would they give that it might be so! but surely if their souls in duty be empty of God, they are filled with trouble and sorrow.
2. Secondly, The engagements of men• hearts to God in duties will tell them wha• they are. The hypocrite takes little heed to• his heart, Esa. 29. 13. they are not afflicted really for the hardness, deadness, unbelief▪ and wanderings of their hearts in duty; as upright ones are: nor do they engage thei• hearts, and labour to get them up with God• in duty as his people do. I have intreate• thy favour with my whole heart, saith David. Psal. 119. 58. they are not pleased in duty till they feel their hearts stand towards God like a bow in its full bent. I say not it is alwayes so with them, what would they give that it might be so! but surely if their souls in duty be empty of God, they are filled with trouble and sorrow.