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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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These external incentives will put an hypocrite into an hot fit of zeal, but then as […] is with a man whose colours are raised b• the heat of the fire, and not by the heal•h• fullness of a good constitution; it soon fade• and falls again.
These external incentives will put an hy•pocrite into an hot fit of zeal, but then as 〈…〉 is with a man whose colours are raised b• the heat of the fire, and not by the heal•h• fulness of a good constitution; it soon fade• and falls again.
But blessed be God it is not so with all The man whose heart is upright with his God, will keep judgment, and do righteousness at all time•, Psal. 106. 3. whether dange•• threaten or no; whether times favour Religion no no; whether his earthly interest b• promoted by it or no; he will be holy still: he will not part with his duties when they a•• stripped naked of those external advantages: as the addition of these things to Religion di• not at first engage him, so the subtraction o• them, cannot disengage him.
But blessed be God it is not so with all The man whose heart is upright with his God, will keep judgment, and do righteousnes at all time,