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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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Motive 2. Secondly, And as the work is full of difficulty, so the discovery of your sincerity will be full of sweetness, and joy unspeakable: it will never repent you that you have prayed and mourned, that you have trembled and feared, that you have searched and tried: nay, it will never repent you that God hath tried you by thousands of sharp afflictions and deep sufferings; if after all, your sincerity may be fully clea•ed up to the satisfaction of your souls; for in the same day your sincerity shall be cleared, your title to Christ will be made as clear to your souls as your sincerity is: you may then go to the promises boldly, and take your own Christ into the arms of your faith, and say, my beloved is mine, and I am his: yea, you may be confident it shall be well with you in the Judgment of the great day, for God will not cast away the upright man, Job 8. 20. if the word clear you now, it cannot condemn you then.
Motive 2. Secondly, And as the work is full of difficulty, so the discovery of your sincerity will be full of sweetness, and joy unspeakable: it will never repent you that you have prayed and mourned, that you have trembled and feared, that you have searched and tryed: nay, it will never repent you that God hath tryed you by thousands of sharp afflictions and deep sufferings; if after all, your sincerity may be fully clea•ed up to the satisfaction of your souls; for in the same day your sincerity shall be cleared, your title to Christ will be made as clear to your souls as your sincerity is: you may then go to the promises boldly, and take your own Christ into the arms of your faith, and say, my beloved is mine, and I am his: yea, you may be confident it shall be well with you in the Judgment of the great day, for God will not cast away the upright man, Job 8. 20. if the word clear you now, it cannot condemn you then.
O what an ease is it to the soul when the •ears and doubts that hanged about it are