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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 2 › Section 2
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Poor self-deceivers, ponder those word Christ; you have hitherto thought […] civil education, your dead and heartless […] ⟨p. 13⟩•ough to denominate you Christians before •od; but go now, and learn what that Scripture meaneth; and be assured, you must experience another manner of conversion, or •se it is impossible for you to escape eternal damnation.
Poor self-deceivers, ponder those word Christ; you have hitherto thought 〈…〉 civil education, your dead and heartless 〈…〉 ⟨p. 13⟩•ough to denominate you Christians before •od; but go now, and learn what that Scrip••re meaneth; and be assured, you must ••perience another manner of conversion, or •se it is impossible for you to escape eternal ••mnation.
2. Secondly, It is too manifest by this, that •any professors are only acquainted with •e externals of Religion; and all their du•es are no more but a compliance of the •tward man with the commands of God: •is is the superficial Religion which deceives •d betrays multitudes into eternal misery. rue Religion seats it self in the inward an, and acts effectually upon the vital pows: killing sin in the heart, and purging its esigns and delights from carnality and selshness; engaging the heart for God, and tting it as a bow in its full bent for him, in e approaches we make to him: but how ttle are many Professors acquainted with ese things!