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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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To allude to this, If our graces and duties cannot bear these lighter trials, if a little lift of prosperity, or lighter stroke of adversity discover so much falseness, rottenness, pride, and selfishness in the heart: If we cannot resist the motions of corruptions, but yield our selves to obey sin in the lusts of it: If we can neither keep our hearts with God in duties, nor mourn for our wanderings from him: If a few scoffs from wicked tongues, or trials of persecution from the hands of men will cause us to faint in the way, and turn back from following the Lord; what shall we do when he comes whose fan is in his hand, and who will throughly purge his floor, Mat. 3. 12. who will try every mans work as by fire, 1 Cor. 3. 13. search the secrets of all hearts, Rom. 2. 16. weigh every man to his ounces and drachms? Surely we can take little comfort in that which is so unable to bear the severe trials of that day, that it cannot stand before the slighter Trials of this day.
To allude to this, If our graces and duties cannot bear these lighter tryals, if a little lift of prosperity, or lighter stroke of adversity discover so much falseness, rottenness, pride, and selfishness in the heart: If we cannot resist the motions of corruptions, but yield our selves to obey sin in the lusts of it: If we can neither keep our hearts with God in duties, nor mourn for our wanderings from him: If a few scoffs from wicked tongues, or tryals of persecution from the hands of men will cause us to faint in the way, and turn back from following the Lord; what shall we do when he comes whose fan is in his hand, and who will throughly purge his floor, Mat. 3. 12. who will try every mans work as by fire, 1 Cor. 3. 13. search the secrets of all hearts, Rom. 2. 16. weigh every man to his ounces and drachms? Surely we can take little comfort in that which is so unable to bear the severe tryals of that day, that it cannot stand before the slighter Tryals of this day.