A39695:482
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 8 › Section 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Secondly, Sincerity knits the soul• to Ch•ist• and union with him secures us in the great trials: munimur quartenus unimur. The Hypocrite having no •nion with Christ, can have no communion with him; nor communications of grace from him; and so that little stock of his own being quickly spent, (I mean natural courage & resolution) ⟨p. 141⟩and no incomes form Christ, he must needs give up in a short time; but it is with a believer in a day of trouble, as it is with a Garrison besieged by Land, but free and open to the Sea; whence fresh supplies are daily sent in to relieve it: see 2 Cor. •. 5. as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our con•••a•ion also aboundeth by Christ: fresh aides and daily supplies proportionable to our expenses, and decays of strength. So Col. •. […], Strengthened with all might in the inner man, •ccording to his glorious power; unto all patience, and long suffering with joyfulness: and this •s the believers great advantage by his union with Christ in a day of trial.
2. Secondly, Sincerity kni•s the soul• to Ch•ist• and union with him secures us in the grea• tryals: munimur quartenus unimur. The Hy•pocrite having no •nion with Christ, can have no communion with him; nor communications of grace from him; and so that little stock of his own being quickly spent, (I mean natural courage & resoution) ⟨p. 141⟩