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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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Their very Countenance is altered by it, 1 Sam. 1. 18. the sad and cloudy countenance of Hannah, cleared up, there was fai• weather in her very face, as soon as she kne• she had audience and acceptance with he• God. I know all communion with God doth not consist in joys and Comforts, the•• is as real communion with God in the mortifying and humbling influences of his spi•i• upon men, as in the cheering and refreshing influences thereof. I know also there is • great diversity in the degrees and measu•• thereof. It is not alike in all Christians, no• with the same Christian at all times: b• that real Christians have true and real Communion with God in their duties, is a true as manifest in spiritual sense and expe•••ence of the Saints, as their Communion • one with another.
Their very Countenance is altered by it, 1 Sam. 1. 18. the sad and cloudy countenance of Hannah, cleared up, there was fai• weather in her very face, assoon as she kne• she had audience and acceptance with he• God. I know all communion with God doth not consist in joyes and Comforts, the•• is as real communion with God in the mo••tifying and humbling influences of his spi•i• upon men, as in the cheering and refreshing influences thereof. I know also there is • great diversity in the degrees and measu thereof. It is not alike in all Christians, no with the same Christian at all times: b that real Christians have true and real Comunion with God in their duties, is a tru as manifest in spiritual sense and expeence of the Saints, as their Communion one with another.