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…

But the false professor is neither rooted •n Christ by union with him, nor doth or •an retain the virtue of ordinances within •im: but like one that views his face in a glass, quickly forgets what manner of man he was: his head indeed may grow, his knowledge may increase, but he hath a dead •nd withered heart.

But the false professour is neither rooted •n Christ by union with him, nor doth or •an retain the vertue of ordinances within •im: but like one that views his face in a glass, quickly forgets what manner of man he was: his head indeed may grow, his know•edge may increase, but he hath a dead •nd withered heart.

But as the Saints have real Communion with God in duties, so they do make improvements answerable thereunto: there is •ost certainly a ripening of their graces that way; a changing or gradual transformation •rom glory to glory; a springing up to that •ull stature of the man in Christ. They that •re planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish •n the Courts of our God, Psal. 92. 13, 14. There is pure and sincere milk in the breasts •f ordinances: a believer sucks the very breasts of Christ in his duties, and doth grow ⟨p. 130⟩