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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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First, When some imminent danger threatens him, some smart rod of God is shaked •ver him: when he slew them, then they sought im, and returned and enquired early after God, •sal. 78. 34▪ O the goodly words they give, the fair promises they make; and yet all the while they do but flatter him with their lips, and •ye unto him with their tongues, ver. 36, 37. •or let but that danger pass over, and the ••eavens clear up again, and he will restrain •rayer, and return to his old course •gain.
First, When some iminent danger threat•ns him, some smart rod of God is shaked •ver him: when he slew them, then they sought im, and returned and enquired early after God, •sal. 78. 34▪ O the goodly words they give, the fair promises they make; and yet all the •hile they do but flatter him with their lips, and •ye unto him with their tongues, ver. 36, 37. •or let but that danger pass over, and the ••eavens clear up again, and he will restrain •rayer, and return to his old course •gain.
Secondly, When the times Countenance •nd favour Religion, and the wind is in his •ack: O what a zeal will he have for God o in the stony ground,