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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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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.
Infer. 4. Fourthly, Doth God kindle so many fires in Zion, and set his Furnaces in Jerusalem to discover and separate the dross from the gold, how contrary are those men to God that allow, yea and prize the dross of Hypocrisy which God hates, and stick not to make the holy God a patronizer and countenancer of it in the hearts and lives of men!
Infer. 4. Fourthly, Doth God kindle so many fires in Sion, and set his Furnaces in Ierusalem to discover and separate the dross from the gold, how contrary are those men to God that allow, yea and prize the dross of Hypocrisie which God hates, and stick not to make the holy God a patronizer and countenancer of it in the hearts and lives of men!
It is amazing to read what Popish pens ⟨p. 170⟩have impudently written about this matter Sylvester puts the question,1