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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, It will manifest its humility in th•• awful and reverential apprehensions it h•• of God, as Abraham did, Gen. 18. 27. […] now I that am but dust and ashes (saith […] have taken upon me to speak unto God. T• humility of Abraham's spirit is in some mea•• to be found in all Abraham's Children.
First, It will manifest its humility in th•• awful and reveren•ial apprehensions it h•• of God, as Abraham did, Gen. 18. 27. 〈…〉 now I that am but dust and ashes (saith 〈…〉 have taken upon me to speak unto God. T• humility of Abrahams spirit is in some mea•• to be found in all Abrahams Children.
Secondly, In those low and vile thoug•• they have of themselves, and their religi• performances: thus that poor peni••• Luke 7. 38. stood behind Christ weepi•• yet the dogs eat the crumbs, saith anot•• Mark 7. 28. I am more brutish than • man, saith a third,