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 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⟩1 Pet. 2. 2. they do grow more and mor• judicious, experienced, humble, mortified and heavenly, by conversing with the Lor• so frequently in his appointments.

But as the Saints have real Communion with God in duties, so they do make im•rovements 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 •reasts of Christ in his duties, and doth grow ⟨p. 130⟩