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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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6. Sixthly, The humility and self-denial […] our hearts in duties will try what they •e for their integrity and sincerity towards •od. Doth a man boast his own excellencies […] prayer as the Pharisee did, Luke 18. 10, […] God I thank thee I a• not as other men: which he speaks not in an humble acknow•gement of the grace of God which dif•ences man from man; but in a proud tentation▪ of his own excellencies? Doth […] man make his duties his Saviours, and trust […] them in a vain confidence of their worth •d•dignity? Luke 18. 9. Surely his heart ⟨p. 126⟩which is thus lifted up within him, is • upright, Hab. 2. 4. But if the heart be […] right indeed, it will express its humility, […] in all other things, so especially in its dut•• wherein it approaches the great and ho• God.
6. Sixthly, The humility and self-denyal 〈…〉 our hearts in duties will try what they •e for their integrity and sincerity towards •od. Doth a man boast his own excellencies 〈…〉 prayer as the Pharisee did, Luke 18. 10, 〈…〉 God I thank thee I a• not as other men: •hich he speaks not in an humble acknowgement of the grace of God which difences man from man; but in a proud entation of his own excellencies? Doth man make his duties his Saviours, and trust them in a vain confidence of their worth ddignity?