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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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3. Thirdly, Every mans graces and duties must be tried and weighed by God in the great day; and if they cannot endure these lesser trials, to which God exposed them now, how will they endure that severe and exact trial to which he will bring them then? No man can search his own heart with that exactness in this world, as God will search i• in the world to come.
3. Thirdly, Every mans graces and duties must be tryed and weighed by God in the great day; and if they cannot endure these lesser tryals, to which God exposed them now, how will they endure that severe and exact tryal to which he will bring them then? No man can search his own heart with that exactness in this world, as God will search i• in the world to come.
I may say in this case to you as the Lord spake to Jeremiah, cl. ap. 12. 5. If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee; then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace wherein thou trustedst, they have wearied thee; then how wilt tho• do in the swelling of Jordan? This was spoken to encourage the Prophet to constancy in his work; and as if the Lord had said, O Jeremiah, do the strivings of the men of Anat hoth thine own Town, dishearten thee? pluck up thy spirits and faint not; there are harder Trials than these that thou must undergo ⟨p. 163⟩at Jerusalem: these are no more to what is coming, than the running with footmen, is to contending with horses: or the passing a small Rivulet, to the swellings of Jordan.
I may say in this case to you as the Lord spake to Ieremiah, cl. ap. 12. 5. If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee; then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace wherein thou trustedst, they have wearited thee; then how wilt tho do in the swelling of Iordan? This was spoken to encourage the Prophet to constancy in his work; and as if the Lord had said, O Ieremy, do the strivings of the men of Anat hoth thine own Town, dishearten thee? pluck up thy spirits and faint not; there are harder Tryals than these that thou must undergo