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…

'Tis base by ends & self-interests, that like a great many ditches cut out of the bank of a River, draw away the stream out of its proper Chanel, and make its waters fail: but if the heart be united for God as the expression is, Psal. 86. 11. then we may say of such a Christian, as was said of a young Roman, quicquid vult, what he doth, is done with all his might. And this was the ground of valdè valt; that saying, liberet me Deus ab •omine ⟨p. 143⟩unius tantùm negotii: a man of one only design puts to all puts to all his strength to carry it: nothing can stand before him.

'Tis base by ends & self-interests, that like a great many ditches cut out of the bank of a River, draw away the stream out of its proper Chanel, and make its waters fail: but if the heart be united for God as the expre••ion is, Psal. 86. 11. then we may say of such a Christian, as was said of a young Roman, quicquid vult, what he doth, is done with all his might. And this was the ground of valdè valt; that saying, liberet me Deus ab •omine ⟨p. 143⟩unius tantùm negotii: a man of one only design puts to all puts to all his strength to càrry it: nothing can stand before him.

5. Fifthly, Sincerity brings a mans will into subjection to the will of God; and this being done, the greatest danger and difficulty is over with such a man. This is that holy oil, which makes the wheels of the soul run nimbly even in difficult paths of obedience, non tardat uncta rota. Let but a man be once brought to that, The will of the Lord be done; as it is,