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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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Suppose your doubts and fears should in some degree remain with you, yet in this you may take some comfort, that if Hypocrisy be in your heart, it is not there by consent: you are not loth to rich and come to the trial, because like Rachel you sit upon your Idols: certainly it is a good sign thy heart is right, when it is filled with so much fear lest it should be false: you know all the disciples said, Master, Is it I: before Judas who was the Traitor spake a word. Last of all (saith the text) Judas said is it I? our willingness to be tried, is a good sign that the desire of our souls is to be right with God.
Suppose your doubts and fears should in some degree remain with you, yet in this you may take some comfort, that if Hypocrisie be in your heart, it is not there by consent: you are not loth to rich and come to the tryal, because like Rachel you sit upon your Idols: certainly it is a good sign thy heart is right, when it is filled with so much fear lest it should be false: you know all the disciples said, Master, Is it I: before Iudas who was the Traytor spake a word. Last of all (saith the text) Iudas said is it I? our willingness to be tryed, is a good sign that the desire of our souls is to be right with God.
Motive 5. Fifthly, Conclude it to be your great advantage to be throughly tried, whatever you be found to be in the trial: if you be found sincere, you are richly rewarded for all your pains and labour: never did that man repent of digging and toiling, that after all hit upon the rich vein that he digged for: what is a vein of gold to a vein of sincerity!
Motive 5. Fifthly, Conclude it to be your great advantage to be throughly tryed, whatever you befound to be in the tryal: if you be found sincere, you are richly rewarded for all your pains and labour: never did that man repent of digging and toyling, that after all hit upon the rich vein that he digged for: what is a vein of gold to a vein of sincerity!