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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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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 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 withou• they quickly tyre downright.
Fourthly, When near relations and in • mates oppose and tempt us. The Prop• speaks of a time When a mans […] ⟨p. 135⟩•hall be the men of his own house, it may be •he wife of his bosom, Mica. 7. 5, 6. O •hat a trial is that which Christ mentions •n Luke 14. 26. when we must hate Father and Mother, Wife and Children, or quit claim to Christ and heaven! This is hard •ork indeed.
Fourthly, When near relations and in • mates oppose and tempt us. The Prop• speaks of a time When a mans 〈…〉