A39695:566
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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It is in this case as in the study of Geography, we are more inquisitive to know, and delighted when we discover the rarities of foreign Countries, and strange things in •he remote parts of the world; than those of our own native Country. I fear there ⟨p. 174⟩be many professors of Religion that can spend day after day in hearing, & love to be disputing fruitless controversies, that never spent one day in searching what influence all those Sermons they have heard, have had upon their hearts, or in rightly stating & determining that great Controversy, in whose right and possession their souls are, & which way they shall go as soon as death hath divided them from those mortal bodies; yea, I doubt many sinful hours are spent in praying into, reporting and censuring the failings of others, and not one hour faithfully employed in judging their own hearts before the Lord: O men had rather be about any other work than this: there's no pleasure in it to the flesh.
It is in this case as in the study of Geography, we are more inquisitive to know, and delighted when we discover the rarities of forraign Countreys, and strange things in •he remote parts of the world; than those of our own native Countrey. I fear there ⟨p. 174⟩be many professours of Religion that can spend day after day in hearing, & love to be disputing fruitless controversies, that never spent one day in searching what influence all those Sermons they have heard, have had upon their hearts, or in rightly stating & determining that great Controversie, in whose right and possession their souls are, & which way they shall go assoon as death hath divided them from those mortal bodyes; yea, I doubt many sinful hours are spent in praying into, reporting and censuring the failings of others, and not one hour faithfully imployed in judging their own hearts before the Lord: O men had rather be about any other work than this: there's no pleasure in it to the flesh.