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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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1. First, In that day the predominant ••terest must appear, and be discovered: it […] be concealed no longer, no man can […] two masters, saith Christ, Luke 16. 13. as may serve many masters, if they all comma•• the same things, or things subordinate […] each other; but he cannot serve two ma•ers if their Commands clash and interf•• with each other; and such are the […] of Christ and the flesh in a suff•••ing hour: Christ saith, •e thou faithful to death; the flesh saith, spare thy self▪ and […] the comforts of life. Christ saith, He […] ⟨p. 137⟩[…] Father, or Mother, Wife or Children, • ands or Inheritances more than me, is not worthy of me. Flesh saith, he that will grieve ••d break the hearts of such dear relations, ••d forsake when he might keep such earth• accommodations, is not worthy of them.
1. First, In that day the predominant ••terest must appear, and be discovered: it 〈…〉 be concealed no longer, no man can 〈…〉 two masters, saith Christ, Luke 16. 13. as may serve many masters, if they all comma•• the same things, or things subordinate 〈…〉 each other; but he cannot serve two ma•ers if their Commands clash and interf•• with each other; and such are the 〈…〉 of Chirst and the flesh in a suffing hour: Christ saith, e thou fithful to death; the flesh saith, spare thy self and the comforts of life. Christ saith, He