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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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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, Matth. 13▪ 5. the •eed sprung up and flourished till the sun •f persecution arose, and then it faded away; for it had no depth of earth: no deep ⟨p. 124⟩solid inward work or principle of grace […] maintain it.
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, Matth. 13▪ 5. the •eed sprung up and flou•ished till the sun •f persecution arose, and then it f•ded away; for it had no depth of earth: no deep ⟨p. 124⟩solid inward work or principle of grace 〈…〉 maintain it.
Thirdly, When self•ends and designs at accommodated & promoted by these thing this was the case of Jesu, 2 Kings […] 16. come see my zeal, for what? for a ba self-interest, not for God: how fervently will some men pray, preach, and profel whilst they sensibly feel the incomes & profit of these duties to their flesh: whilst the ae admired and applauded!