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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 9 › Section 2
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3. Thirdly, By these trials pride and self•onfidence is destroyed and mortified in the •aints, as much as by any thing in the world: •e never see what poor weak creatures we •re, till we come to the trial. It's said, Deut. •. 2. God led Israel through the de•art to •rove them and to humble them: when we •re proved, then we are humbled. Those that •ver reckon their graces before the trial, see ••ey must come to another account, & take •ew measures of themselves after they have •een upon trial.
3. Thirdly, By these tryals pride and self•onfidence is destroyed and mortified in the •aints, as much as by any thing in the world: •e never see what poor weak creatures we •re, till we come to the tryal. It's said, Deut. •. 2. God led Israel through the de•art to •rove them and to humble them: when we •re proved, then we are humbled. Those that •ver reckon their graces before the tryal, see ••ey must come to another account, & take •ew measures of themselves after they have •een upon tryal.