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The spiritual touchstoneThe spiritval tovchstone
The spiritual touchstone: or, The signs of a godly man drawn in so plain and profitable a manner, as all sorts of Christians may try themselves thereby. Together with directions, how the weak Christian, by the use of these signs may establish his assurance. By. N. Bifield preacher of Gods word at Isteworth in Middlesex.The spiritval tovchstone: or, The signes of a godly man drawne in so plaine and profitable a maner, as all sorts of Christians may trie themselues thereby. Together with directions, how the weake Christian, by the vse of these signes may establish his assurance. By. N. Bifield preacher of Gods word at Isteworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by R. Field for Jonah Man, 1619London: printed by R. Field for Ionas Man, 1619
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Cleanness of the1 thoughts and affections. For Faith purifieth the heart. It makes a man strive after inward purity, as well as outward: to get a clean heart as well as clean hands. It worketh humiliation for inward sins as well as outward, Act. 15. 9. and drives a man to seek pardon in the name of ⟨p. 61⟩Christ, for all sorts of inward perturbations and secret evils.
2. Cleannesse of the1 thoughts and affections. For Faith purifieth the heart. It makes a man striue after inward puritie, as well as outward: to get a cleane heart as well as cleane hands. It worketh humiliation for inward sinnes as well as outward, Act. 15. 9. and driues a man to seeke pardon in the name of ⟨p. 61⟩Christ, for all sorts of inward perturbations and secret euils.
- 12. Purity of heart.2. Puritie of heart.
3. Victory over the 1world. Faith overcometh the world, 1. Job. 5. 4. 5: and so it doth, when it maketh a man so rest upon God, and his truth and promise, as, if he be put to it, to deny the respect of his own credit, or profit, or pleasures, or the displeasure of carnal friends, or his hopes in matters of the world; resting satisfied with the expectation of the treasures and pleasures of a better world, yielding