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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 10 › Section 3
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SECT. III.
•. First, Great numbers of persons in the professing world are deceived and destroyed by trusting to seeming and untried grace. This was the miserable condition of these Laodicean professors in the Text: they •eckoned themselves rich, but were really •oor, all is not gold that glisters: their gold (as •hey accounted it) was never tried in the •ire: if a mans whole estate lay in some precious stone, suppose a rich Diamond, how is •e concerned to have it throughly tried? •o see whether it will bear a smart stroke with the hammer, or fly like a Bristol Diamond under it? All that you are worth lies •n the truth and sincerity of your grace: and till that be tried you know not whether you be worth any thing or nothing.
•. FIrst, Great numbers of persons in the professing world are deceived and destroyed by trusting to seeming and untri•d grace. This was the miserable condition of these Laodicean professours in the Text: they •eckoned themselves rich, but were really •oor, all is notgold that glisters: their gold (as •hey accounted it) was never tryed in the ire: if a mans whole estate lay in some precious stone, suppose a rich Diamond, how is e concerned to have it throughly tryed? o see whether it will bear a smart stroke with the hammer, or fly like a Bristol Diamond under it? All that you are worth lyes n the truth and sincerity of your grace: and till that be tryed you know not wheher you be worth any thing or nothing.