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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 3
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SECT. III.
And that such sufferings as these will discover the falseness and rottenness ⟨p. 136⟩of mens hearts cannot be doubted, if yo• consider that this is the fire designed b• God for this very use and purpose to sep• rate the gold from the dross, so you will fin• it, 1. Pet. 4. 12. Beloved think it […] strange concerning the fiery trial, which is […] try you,(i.e.) the very design and aim • providence in permitting and ordering the• is to try you. The design of Satan is to d• stroy you, but Gods design is to try you. U• on this account you find the hour of pe•• • cution (in a suitable notion) called the […] of temptation, or probation, Rev. 3. 10. […] then professors are sifted to the very bra•• searched to the very bottom principles. T•• is the day that burns as an Oven, in which […] the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be as ble,