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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. 3. Thirdly, Let none boast in a carnal confidence of their own strength and stability; you are yet in a state of trial: hitherto God hath kept you upright in all your trials, bless God but boast not: you are but feathers in the wind of temptation, if God leave you to your selves. Peter told Christ (and doubtless he spake no more than he honestly meant) though all men forsake thee yet will not I: and you know what he did when the hour of his trial came: Matth. 26. 35. Angels left to themselves have fallen: it's better be a humble worm, than a proud Angel.
Infer. 3. Thirdly, Let none boast in a carna confidence of their own strength and stability; you are yet in a state of tryal: hitherto God hath kept you upright in all your tryals, bless God but boast not: you are but feathers in the wind of temptation, if God leave you to your selves. Peter told Christ (and doubtless he spake no more than he honestly meant) though all men forsake thee yet will not I: and you know what he did when the hour of his tryal came: Matth. 26. 35. Angels left to themselves have fallen: it's better be a humble worm, than a proud Angel.
Ah how many Pendletons will this professing age show, if once God bring us to the fiery trial? let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall: you have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin: none stand upon firmer ground, than those that see nothing in themselves to stand upon: he that leans upon his own arm, usually benumbs it, and makes it useless.
Ah how many Pendletons will this professing age shew, if once God bring us to the fiery tryal? let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall: you have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin: none stand upon firmer ground, than those that see nothing in themselves to stand upon: he that leans upon his own arm, usually benums it, and makes it useless.