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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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Obj. If any upright soul be▪ •tumbled at this, […] not being able to discern the increase of h•• graces after all his duties.
Obj. If any upright soul be▪ •tumbled at this, 〈…〉 not being able to discern the increase of h•• graces after all his duties.
Sol. Let such consider the growth o• grace is discerned as the growth of plants is, which we perceive rather Crevice, quà•• crescere: to have grown, than to grown: compare time past and present, and yo• may see it: but usually our eager desires after more, make us over look what we have as nothing.
Sol. Let such consider the growth o• grace is discerned as the growth of plants is, which we perceive rather Crevisse, quà•• crescere: to have grown, than to grown: compare time past and present, and yo• may see it: but usually our eager desires after more, make us over look what we have as nothing.
9. Ninthly, The assistances and influences of the spirit in duties, shows us what we are: no vital sanctifying influences can fall upon carnal hearts in duties. The spirit helps no their infirmities, nor makes intercession fo them with groanings which cannot be u tered, as he doth for his own people: Rom 8. 26, 27. they have his assistances in th