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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 2
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SECT. II.
Well then, if it be so that all must into the furnace, let every man try his own work, Examine your selves, professors, search your hearts, commune with your reins: nothing more concerns you in all the world than this doth. O that you would be more in your closets, and oftener upon your knees: O that you would look into the Bible, then into your hearts; & then to God, saying with David, search me O God and know my heart; prove me, and try my reins; and see if there be any way of iniquity in me: never did Religion thrive in the world since mens heads have been so over-heated with Notions and Controversies, and their hearts so sensibly cooled in their closet work. I have elsewhere more largely pressed this ⟨p. 173⟩duty upon the professors of this generation,1 and thither shall refer the Reader for the present to see the necessity and importance of this work.
WEll then, if it be so that all must into the furnace, let every man try his own work, Examine your selves, professours, search your hearts, commune with your reins: nothing more concerns you in all the world than this doth. O that you would be more in your closets, and oftner upon your knees: O that you would look into the Bible, then into your hearts; & then to God, saying with David, search me O God and know my heart; prove me, and try my reins; and see if there be any way of iniquity in me: never did Religion thrive in the world since mens heads have been so over-heated with Notions and Controversies, and their hearts so sensibly cooled in their closet work. I have elsewhere more largely pressed this