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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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Counsel 1▪
Entreat the Lord night and day for a renewed and right Spirit: all the helps and directions in the world will not antidote and preserve you from Hypocrisy, nothing will be found able to keep you right, till sanctification have first set you right, Ezek. 36. 27. I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.
Intreat the Lord night and day for a renewed and right Spirit: all the helps and directions in the world will not antidote and preserve you from Hypocrisie, nothing will be found able to keep you right, till sanctification have first set you right, Ezek. 36. 27. I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.
A Bowl may keep by a strait line, so long as the impressed force of the hand that delivered it remains strong upon it; but as that wears off, so its motion fails; and its own Bias sways and turns it: a fright of conscience, a pang of warm affection, or the influence of some great example, or a good education may influence an unrenewed soul; and push it on in the way of Religion for a season; but the heart so influenced must and will return to its own natural course again. And I think there wants nothing but time, or a suitable temptation to discover the true temper of many a professors spirit; pray therefore as that holy man did,