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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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Here I shall only urge the duty of self-trial by some pressing Motives, and awakening Considerations.
Here I shall only urge the duty of selftryal by some pressing Motives, and awakening Considerations.
Motive 1. And the first shall be the exceeding difficulty of this work: difficulty in some cases may be a discouragement, but where the matter is of absolute necessity as it is here; nothing provokes more to diligence; strive (saith our Lord) to enter in at the strait gate, for many will seek to enter in and shall not be able, Luke 13. 24. A double difficulty is found attending this work of self-trial. Difficulty in bringing the heart to it, and difficulty in the right and successful management of it: who find it not hard to persuade his heart to such work as this? nature declines it, flesh and blood relish it not: it's one of the great severities in Religion: 'tis no easy thing to bring a man and his own heart together.
Motive 1. And the first shall be the exceeding difficulty of this work: difficulty in some cases may be a discouragement, but where the matter is of absolute necessity as it is here; nothing provokes more to diligence; strive (saith our Lord) to enter in at the strait gate, for many will seek to enter in and shall not be able, Luke 13. 24. A double difficulty is found attending this work of self-tryal. Difficulty in bringing the heart to it, and difficulty in the right and successful management of it: who find it not hard to perswade his heart to such work as this? nature declines it, flesh and blood relish it not: it's one of the great severities in Religion: 'tis no easie thing to bring a man and his own heart together.