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…

8. Eighthly, Growth and improvement • grace in duties notably differences the soun• and unsound heart. All the duties in t•• world will never make an hypocrite mo• holy, humble, or heavenly than he is: b• as the watering of a dry stick will soon rot it, than make it flourishing and frui•• What was ••udas the better for all those h•••venly sermons, prayers, and discourses Christ which he heard? and what […] ⟨p. 129⟩•y soul be the better for all the duties thou performest weekly and daily if thy heart be unsound? It's plain from Joh. 15. 4. there •ust be an implantation into Christ, before •ere can be an improvement in fruitful obedience. And it is as plain from 1 John •. 14. that the virtues of the ordinances must remain, the efficacy and powers that we sometimes feel under them, must abide and remain in the heart afterwards; or we cannot grow, and be made fruitful by them.

8. Eightly, Growth and improvement • grace in duties notably differences the soun• and unsound heart. All the duties in t•• world will never make an hypocrite mo• holy, humble, or heavenly than he is: b• as the watering of a dry stick will soon rot it, than make it flourishing and frui•• What was ••udas the better for all those h•••venly sermons, prayers, and discourses Christ which he heard? and what