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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 11 › Section 1
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Infer. 2. Secondly, Are there such trials appointed and permitted by the Lord for the discovery of his peoples sincerity in this world, then let none of Gods people expect a quiet station in this world: certainly you shall meet with no rest here: you must out of one fire into another, and it is a merciful condescension of the Lord to poor creatures, thus to concern himself for their safety and benefit: what is man that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him? that thou shouldst visit him every morning, and try him every moment? Job 7. 17, 18.
Infer. 2. Secondly, Are there such tryals appointed and permitted by the Lord for the discovery of his peoples sincerity in this world, then let none of Gods people expect a quiet station in this world: certainly you shall meet with no rest here: you must out of one fire into another, and it is a merciful condescension of the Lord to poor creatures, thus to concern himself for their safety and benefit: what is man that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him? that thou shouldst visit him every morning, and try him every moment? Job 7. 17, 18.
O 'tis a great deal of honour put upon a ⟨p. 168⟩poor worm, when God will every moment try him and visit him: it argues the great esteem the Goldsmith hath of his gold, when he will sit by the Furnace himself, and order the fire with his own hand: when he pries so often, and so curiously into the fining pot, to see that none of his precious metal upon which he sets his heart be lost.