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…

Secondly; The fiery Trial is then high, •hen there remains no visible ho•es of deli•rance or outward encouragements to sense, ⟨p. 134⟩that the Scene, will alter: when we see not ou• Signs, there is no more any prophet; nor any tha• can tell us how long, as the case with the Church was in Psal. 74. 9. then their hands hang down, and their hearts faint: nor is it to be wondered at, when the length of trouble• prove so sore a temptation even to the upright, to put forth their hands to iniquity, a• it is Psal. 125. 3. if such a temptation shak• such men as build on the rock, it must qui•• overturn those whose foundation is b•• sand.

Secondly; The fiery Tryal is then high, •hen there remains no visible ho•es of deli•rance or outward incouragements to sense, ⟨p. 134⟩that the Scene, will alter: when we see not ou• Signs, there is no more any prophet; nor any tha• can tell us how long, as the case with the Churc• was in Psal. 74. 9. then their hands hang down, and their hearts faint: nor is it to be wondred at, when the length of trouble• prove so sore a temptation even to the upright, to put forth their hands to iniquity, a it is