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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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It's said in the trial of opinions, that if a man superstruct hay or stubble upon the foundation, he shall suffer loss, yet he himself may be saved, 1 Cor. 3. 12. but if Hypocrisy be in the foundation, there is no such relief, there is no possibility of salvation in that case.
It's said in the tryal of opinions, that if a man superstruct hay or stubble upon the foundation, he shall suffer loss, yet he himself may be saved, 1 Cor. 3. 12. but if Hypocrisie be in the foundation, there is no such relief, there is no possibility of salvation in that case.
Ah Reader, thou must be cast for ever according to the integrity or hypocrisy of thy heart with God. Summon in then all the powers of thy soul, bring thy thoughts as close as it is possible to bring them to this matter: if there be any subject of consideration able to drink up the spirits of a man, here it is: never was time put to an higher improvement, never were thoughts spent upon ⟨p. 177⟩a more important business than this is: happy is the man that rescues the years, months, days, yea, the very moments of his life from other employments, to consecrate them unto this solemn, awful, and most important business.
Ah Reader, thou must be cast for ever according to the integrity or hypocrisie of thy heart with God. Summon in then all the powers of thy soul, bring thy thoughts as close as it is possible to bring them to this matter: if there be any subject of consideration able to drink up the spirits of a man, here it is: never was time put to an higher improvement, never were thoughts spent upon ⟨p. 177⟩a more important business than this is: happy is the man that rescues the years, months, dayes, yea, the very moments of his life from other imployments, to consecrate them unto this solemn, awful, and most important business.