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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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Thus the two interests come in full oppo•ion: and now have but patience to wait little, and you shall discern which is predominant. A dog follows tow men while they ••th walk one way; and you know not which of the two is his master; stay but a little […] their path parts, & then you shall quick see who is his master. So is it in this case.
Thus the two interests come in sull oppo•ion: and now have but patience to wait little, and you shall discern which is pre•ominant. A dog follows tow men while they ••th walk one way; and you know not •hich of the two is his master; stay but a little 〈…〉 their path parts, & then you shall quick• see who is his master. So is it in this case.
2. Secondly, In that day sensible supports ••l, and all a mans relief comes in by the ••re and immediate actings of faith; and •ere it not for those reliefs, his heart would •on faint and dye away under discouragements, 2. Cor. 4. 17, 18. We faint not, whilst […] look not at the things which are seen, for they […] temporal, but at the things which are not seen, […] they are External: q.d longer than we •eep our eye intently fixed upon the invisi•e and eternal things in the coming world; […] feel our selves fainting, and dying away ••der the troubles & afflictions of this world. ad fainted(saith David) if I had not believed. ow then suppose ye shall the Hypocrite live […] such a time, who hath no faith to support m? no relief but what comes in through […] senses?