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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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None can come nigh to God in duty, but •ose that are made nigh by reconciliation: […] special Communion with Christ, is found•• in real union with Christ: but The wick•• are estranged from the womb, Psal. 58. 3.
None can come nigh to God in duty, but •ose that are made nigh by reconciliation: 〈…〉 special Communion with Christ, is found•• in real union with Christ: but The wick•• are estranged from the womb, Psal. 58. 3.
But now there is real communion betwixt •od and his people in duties. Truly our• llowship, [Greek or Hebrew], our Communion is with •e Father and Son, 1 Joh. 1. 3. God pours earth of his spirit upon them, and they pour • •th their hearts to God. It is sensibly ma•fest to them when the Lord comes nigh • their souls in duty, and as sensible they •e of his retreats and withdraw•ents from ••eir souls,