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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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3 Thirdly, The Conscience men make o• secret as well as of public duties, will tel• them what their hearts and graces are, true, or false. A vain Professor is curious in th• former, and either negligent, or at best formal in the latter: for he finds no inducement• of honour, applause, or ostentation of gift• externally moving him to them: nor hath he any experience of the sweetness & benefit of such duties internally to allure and engage his soul to them.
3 Thirdly, The Conscience men make o• secret as well as of publick duties, will tel• them what their hearts and graces are, true, or false. A vain Professour is curious in th• former, and either negligent, or at best formal in the latter: for he finds no inducement• of honour, applause, or o•tentation of gift• externally moving him to them: nor hath he any experience of the sweetness & benefit of such duties internally to allure and engage his soul to them.
The Hypocrite therefore is not for the closet▪ but the Synagogue, Matth. 6. 5. 6. not bu• that education, example, or the impulse o• ⟨p. 119⟩conscience may sometimes drive him thither; but it is not his daily delight to be there; his meat and drink to retire from the clamour of the world to enjoy God in secret. Tis the observation of their duties is the great inducement to these men to perform them; and verily saith our Lord, ver. 2. they have their reward, [Greek or Hebrew] they have it away; or they have carried off all the benefit and advantage that ever they shall have by Religion. Much good do them with their applause and honour, let them make much of that aery reward, for it's all that ever they shall have.