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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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To feel somewhat within, paining th• like an empty hungry stomach until th• have eaten that hidden Manna, that br••• ⟨p. 17⟩secret; I mean refreshed their souls with •al communion with the Lord there; this a Mystery locked up from the acquain•nce of many that call themselves Christians; •d yet this is made a Characteristical note of sincere Christian by Christ himself in Matth. 6.
To feel somewhat within, paining th• like an empty hungry stomach until th• have eaten that hidden Manna, that br••• ⟨p. 17⟩secret; I mean refreshed their souls with •al communion with the Lord there; this a Mystery locked up from the acquain•nce of many that call themselves Christians; •d yet this is made a Characteristical note of •sincere Christian by Christ himself in Matth. 6.
O Reader, If thy heart were right with •od, and thou dist not cheat thy self with […] vain profession, thou wouldst have frequent •asiness with God, which thou wouldst be th thy dearest friend, or the wife of thy some should be privy to: Non est religio i omnia patent. Religion doth not lay all en to the eyes of men. Observed duties maintain our credit, but secret duties mainin our life. It was the saying of an Heathen out his secret correspondency with his fiend, What need the world be a acquainted ith it? thou and I are Theatre enough to each her: There are enclosed pleasures in Religion, which none but renewed spiritual souls o feelingly understand.