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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 8 › Section 2
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Thirdly, When a false professor is engaged alone in sufferings, and is singled o•• from the herd as a deer to be run down now it's a thousand to one but he quits Religion to save himself: good company wi• encourage a faint hearted traveller to jog […] a great way: but if he be forsaken by all▪ […] Paul was, no man to stand by him if left •lone, as Elijah was, what can encourage hi• to hold out?
Thirdly, When a false professour is enga•ged alone in sufferings, and is singled o•• from the herd as a deer to be run down now it's a thousand to one but he quits Re•ligion to save himself: good company wi• encourag• a faint hearted traveller to jogg 〈…〉 a great way: but if he be forsaken by all▪ 〈…〉 Paul was, no man to stand by him if left •lone, as Elijah was, what can encourage hi• to hold out?
Indeed if they had the same invisible s••ports those good men had, that the Lord w• with them, that would keep them steady but wanting that encouragement from wit• in, and all shrinking away from without they quickly tyre downright.
Indeed if they had the same invisible sports those good men had, that the Lord w with them, that would keep them steady but wanting that encouragement from wit in, and all shrinking away from withou they quickly tyre downright.