A39695:558
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 11 › Section 1
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Blush O heavens! that ever such factors for hell should open and vend such ware as this in the public market, and invite the world to Hypocrisy, as that which makes for the glory of God, the edification of men, and a work meritorious in the Hypocrite himself. This is the doctrine of devils indeed.
Blush O heavens! that ever such factors for hell should open and vend such ware as this in the publick market, and invite the world to Hypocrisie, as that which makes for the glory of God, the edification of men, and a work meritorious in the Hypocrite himself. This is the doctrine of devils indeed.
Infer. 5. Fifthly, If it be so, that all grace must come to the test, and be tried as gold in the fire, even in this world: how are all men concerned to lay a solid foundation at first, and throughly deliberate the terms upon which ⟨p. 171⟩they close with Christ, and engage in the profession of his name! Which of you saith Christ intending to build a Tower sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost? Luk. 14. 28. if some men had sate down at first and pondered the conditions and terms of Christ, they had not sate down now discouraged and tried in the way. The Apostle Paul went to work at another rate: he accounted all but dung and dross for Christ, Phil. 3. 8. and was of the same mind, when the actual trial came; for then he tells us, he counted not his life dear unto him, Acts 20. 24. And the Apostle Peter admonishes believers not to think it strange concerning the fiery trial which was to try them, 1 Pet. 4. 21. q. d. let none of these things be surprisals to you, you were told before-hand what you must trust to: every Christian must be a Martyr, at least in the disposition and resolution of his heart.