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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 4
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SECT. IV.
•. What advantages sincerity gives the soul for its establishment & perseverance in suffering times, I shall briefly account for in the following particulars.
•. WHat advantages sincerity gives the soul for its establishment & perseverance in suffering times, I shall briefly account for in the following particulars.
1. First, Sincere godliness dethrones that Idol the love of this world, in all true Christians; and this is it that makes men shrink and flinch from Christ in a day of suffering I do not deny but even believers themselves love the world too much, but they •ove it not as their chief good; it is not their portion or happiness, if any man so love ⟨p. 140⟩the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 1 Joh. 2. 15. How much soever a sincere Christian loves the world, yet still it is in subordination to the love God, Joh. 21▪ 15. Sincerity can consist with no other love of the world; it will not suffer such a cursed […] to grow under its shadow.