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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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Now, what is it but this inordinate s• pream love of the Creature that makes me• forsake Christ in time of temptation? this was the ruin of that young man, Matth. 19▪ 22. he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. This was the overthrow o• Demas, 2. Tim. 4. 10. he hath forsaken m• (saith the Apostle) having loved this presen• world: the love of this world like sap in green wood will not suffer you to burn fo• Christ; get but the heart mortified to the creature, by a discovery of better things in heaven; and it will establish and fix your spirits, that it shall not be in the power o• creatures to shake you off from Christ your foundation.
Now, what is it but this inordinate s• pream love of the Creature that makes me• forsake Christ in time of temptation? this was the ruine of that young man, Matth. 19▪ 22. he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. This was the overthrow o• Demas, 2. Tim. 4. 10. he hath forsaken m• (saith the Apostle) having loved this presen• world: the lvoe of this world like sap in green wood will not suffer you to burn fo• Christ; get but the heart mor•ified to the creature, by a discovery of better things in heaven; and it will establish and fix your spirits, that it shall not be in the power o• creatures to shake you off from Christ your foundation.