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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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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, Acts 21. 13. to see the highest reason of cheerful obedience in the holy, just and good will of God; and then the difficulty is over: he can suffer quietly, what men inflict unjustly.
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 oyl, 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, Acts 21. 13. to see the highest reason of cheerful obedience in the holy, just and good will of God; and then the difficulty is over: he can suffer quietly, what men inflict unjustly.
6. Sixthly, Sincerity takes its measures of present things by the rules of faith, and eternity: it goes not by the same reckoning & account that others do, who judge of things by sense, and the respects they have to the present world: 2 Cor. 4. 18. We look not at the things th•• are seen, but at the things that are not seen; and this is there given as the reason of his not fainting under present difficulties: so Rom. 8. 18. I reckon that the sufferings of the present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us: he will not allow himself to undervalue eternal glory by once mentioning present sufferings, in a way of bemoaning