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A39695	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 ...	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.; Flavel, John, 1630?-1691. Saint indeed, or, The great work of a Christian opened and pressed.	1698 (1698)	Wing F1202; ESTC R40933	101,310	218

from presumptuous 〈◊〉 saith the Psalmist Psal. 19. 13. let them ●ot have dominion over me q. d. Lord I find ●ropensions to sin in my nature yea strong ●nes too if thou leave me to my self I am ●arried into sin as easily as a Feather down ●e Torrent O Lord keep back thy servant ●nd there is no petition that upright ones our out their hearts to God in either more ●equently or more ardently than in this 〈◊〉 be kept back from sin 8. Eightly and Lastly This shews the soul not to be under the dominion of sin that it doth not only cry to God to be kept back from sin but uses the means of prevention himself he resists it as well as pray aginst it Psal. 18. 23. I was also upright before him and kept my self from mine iniquity So Iob 31. 1. I have made a Covenant with mine eyes and yet more fully in Isa. 33. 15. he shaketh his hands from holding bribes and stoppeth his ears from hearing blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil See with what care the portals are shut at which sin useth to enter All these things are very relieving considerations to poor souls questioning their integrity under the frequent surprisals of sin And the next tryal no less SECT VIII 5. FIfthly Our opposition to and conflict● with sin discover what we are gold or dross There are conflicts with sin both in the regenerate and in the unregenerate but there is a vast difference betwixt them as will appear in the following account 1. First There is an universal and there 〈◊〉 a particular opposition to sin the former 〈◊〉 found in regenerate the latter in unregene●rate souls a gracious heart hates every false way Psal. 119. 104. and must needs do so because he hates and opposes sin as sin s● ●●at he can no peccatum in deliciis no ex●epted or reserved Lust but fights against ●●e whole body and every limb and mem●er of the body of sin But it is not so with the Hypocrite or car●l Professor he hath evermore some reser●●●d sin that he cannot part with 2. Secondly There is an opposition be●ixt the new nature and sin and there is an ●position betwixt natural Conscience and sin ●●e former is the case of an upright soul the ●ter may be of a self-deceiver A regenerate Person opposeth sin because ●ere is an irreconcileable Antipathy betwixt and the new nature in him as is clear ●om Gal. 5. 17. The flesh lusteth against the spi● and the spirit against the flesh and these are ●●trary the one to the other by flesh under●nd corrupt Nature by spirit not only the ●irit of Man but the spirit of God or prin●●le of Regeneration in Man by the lust● of these two against each other under●●nd the desire and endeavour of each others ●●struction and ruine and the ground of all ●s is the contrariety of these two natures These are contrary one to the other there is wofold opposition betwixt them one for●l their very natures are opposite the ●er effective their workings and designs are posite as it is betwixt fire and water But the oppositions found in unrenewed Souls against sin is not from their nature for sin is suitable enough to that but from the light that is in their minds and conse ences which scares and terrifies them Suc was that in Darius Dan. 6. 14. He was so displeased with himself and set his heart on Dani to deliver him and laboured till the going dow of the Sun to deliver him here the contest wa● betwixt sense of honour upon one side an conviction of Conscience on the other sid● Sometimes a generous and noble disposit on opposes sordid and base actions maj● sum ad majora natus quam ut corpor is m sim mancipium I am greater and born ● greater things than that I should be a slaw to my Body said a brave Heathen 3. Thirdly There is a permanent and the●● is a transient opposition to sin the former the case of God's People the latter of ●en●● porary and unsound Professors The Saint when he draws the sword this warfare against sin throws away th scabbard no end of this combate with sin t●● life end their life and their troubles are nished together 2 Tim. 4. 7. I have fought t●● good fight and have finished my Course But in other Men it is but a transie quarrel out with sin one day and in an● ther and the reason is plain by what w●● noted before it is not the opposition two natures it is like the opposition of t●● Wind and Tyde these may be contrary and make a stormy sea to day but the wind may come about and go as the T-yde goes ●o morrow but in a Christian it is as the ●pposition of the river and the dam one must give way to the other there 's no reconciling them but the other like the dog ●eturns to his vomit 2 Pet. 2. ult 4. Fourthly There is an opposition to he root of sin and an opposition to the fruits of sin A gracious soul opposeth root and fruit but others the latter only The great design of an upright soul is not only to lop off this or that branch but to kill the root of sin which is in his nature Rom. 7. 24. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death but the great care and endeavours of others is to suppress outward acts of sin and escape the mischievous consequents of it yea their study is as Lactantius phraseth it Potius abscondere quam abscindere vitia to hide rather than to kill their Lusts. 5. Fifthly There is an opposition to sin in the strength of God and an opposition to sin in our own strength The former is proper to a real Christian the later is found frequently with unsanctified persons when a Christian goes forth against any sin it is in the strength of God So you read their rule directs them Eph. 6. 10. Be strong in the Lord and the power of his might take unto you the whole armour of God and suitab●● you shall find them frequently upon the● knees begging strength from heaven again● their Lusts 2 Cor. 12. 8. For this cause I b● sought the Lord thrice saith Paul i. e. Ofte● and earnestly that the temptation mig●● depart from him But Others go forth against sin only i● the strength of their own resolutions so di● Pendleton in our story these Resolutions o● vows which they have put themselves unde● are as frequently frustrated as made 6. Sixthly There is a successful oppositio● to sin and an opposition that comes to n●●thing The former is that of true Christian● the later is found among unregenerate me●● The work of Mortification in the Saint● is progressive and increasing hence Rom. 6. 6 Our old man is Crucified with him that the bo●dy of sin might be destroyed Sin dyes in be●lievers much what as crucified persons use t●●●ye viz. a slow lingering gradual bu● sure death its

but it is with a believer in a day of trouble as it is with a Garison besieged by Land buyt free and open to the Sea whence fresh supplies are daily sent in to relieve it see 2 Cor. ● 5. as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our con●●●a●ion also aboundeth by Christ fresh aides and daily supplyes proportionable to our expences and decays of strength So Col. ● 〈◊〉 Strengthned with all might in the inner man ●ccording to his glorious power unto all pati●nce and long suffering with joyfulness and this ●s the believers great advantage by his union with Christ in a day of tryal 3. Thirdly As sincerity unites the soul with Christ so it sets the heart upon heaven ●nd things eternal Col. 3. 1. c. surely no●hing is more conducive to our stability than his in the hour of temptation This is the most effectual preservative from ●emptations upon the right hand and upon ●he le●t Moses could cast a Kingdom at ●is heels despise the riches pleasu●es and ho●ours of Egypt whilst his eye was fixed up in him that is invisible and had respect to ●e recompence of reward Heb. 11. 24 25 6. And it was a brave reply of the Forty ●artyrs to Valence the Emperour tempting ●●em with the preferments and honours of ●e world why offer you these trifles to us when you know the whole world is contemned by us And for temptations on the left hand how little can they move that soul who realizes the glory of the approaching world sees the afflictions sufferings of this world preparing him for and hastening him to the enjoyment of it temptations meet but with cold entertainment from such souls 4. Fourthly Sincerity drives but one design and that is to please and enjoy God and what can more establish and fix the soul in the hour of temptations than this The reason why the Hypocrite is unstable in all●his ways is given us by the Apostle Iames 1. 8. he is a double minded man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a man of two souls in one body as a prophane wretch once boasted that he had one soul for God another for any thing but all the designs of a gracious heart are united in one and so the intire stream of his affections runs strong 'T is base by ends self-interests that like a great many ditches cut out of the bank of a River draw away the stream out of its proper Chanel and make its waters fail but if the heart be united for God as the expre●●ion is Psal. 86. 11. then we may say of such a Christian as was said of a young Roman quicquid vult what he doth is done with all his might And this was the ground of valdè valt that saying liberet me Deus ab ●omine unius tantùm negotii a man of one only design puts to all puts to all his strength to càrry it nothing can stand before him 5. Fifthly Sincerity brings a mans will into subjection to the will of God and this being done the greatest danger and difficulty is over with such a man This is that holy oyl which makes the wheels of the soul run nimbly even in difficult paths of obedience non tardat uncta rota Let but a man be once brought to that The will of the Lord be done as it is Acts 21. 13. to see the highest reason of cheerful obedience in the holy just and good will of God and then the difficulty is over he can suffer quietly what men inflict unjustly 6. Sixthly Sincerity takes its measures of present things by the rules of fai●h and e●ernity it goes not by the same reckoning account that others do who judge of things by sense and the respects they have to the present world 2 Cor. 4. 18. We look not at the things th●● are seen but at the things that are not seen and this is there given as the reason of his not fainting under present difficulties so Rom. 8. 18. I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us he will not allow himself to undervalue eternal glory by once mentioning present sufferings in a way of bemoaning himself for them a steady eye upon the other world makes us more than Conquerours over the troubles of this world 7. Seventhly To conclude Sincerity alone hath all the heavenly aids and assistances to stability and perseverance in suffering times Upright ones and such only have Christs intercession in heaven for them Rom. 8. 34. The spirits consolation in all their troubles 1 Pet. 4. 14. the spirit of glory of God resteth on them the beneficial ministry of Angels who are sent forth upon their account Heb. 1. 14. A stock of Prayers going for them all the world over Eph. 6. 18. Multitudes of precious promises in the Scriptures for every line word syllable of which the faithfulness of God stands engaged so that it 's impossible such gold can perish in the fire And thus of the several ways by which grace is here tryed CHAP. IX Opening the designs and ends of God in bringing of the professours of Religion into such various Tryals of their graces in this world SECT I. THese are some of the ways methods in which God brings his Gold to the Touchstone and to the fire even in this world before the awful and solemn Tryal they must come to in the final Judgment And if we desire to be satisfied what the design and end of God in making such probations of his people is We must conclude in the general he certainly designs his own glory and his peoples advantage and profit in them If he suffer them to be tryed by reproaches happy are they the spirit of God and glory resteth on them there 's their profit and though his name be evil spoken of yet in the meekness of their spirits he is glorified as it is 1 Pet. 4. 14. If the scourg● slay suddenly he laugheth at the tryal of the innocent Job 9. 23. not at their afflictions but at the effects and blessed issues and results of them not that it gives them pain but that it gives him glory upon this account the Apostle bids us count it all Joy when we fall into divers temptations or tryals and still the more tryals the more joy for thereby God will produce such effects as are more precious than gold that perisheth 1 Pet. 1. 7. O who can value the comfort that is tasted by the soul upon the Tryal and discovey of its sincerity when after some sore temptation wherein God hath helped us to maintain our integrity or after some close pinching affliction wherein we have discovered in our selves a sweet resignation to and contentment in the will of God an heart cleaving to the Lord purged and made more spiritual under the rod we can turn to the Lord and appeal to him as the Prophet did Ier. 12. 3.

Iulian Apostate and under Iovian Christian again and all this within the space of seventy years the age of one man O what shifting and shuffling was there among the men of that generation the changes of weather shew the unsoundnes● of mens bodies and the changes of times the unsoundness of their souls Christian if ever thou wilt manifest and maintain thine integrity be a man but of one design be sure that be an honest and good design to secure heaven whatever becomes of earth to hold fast integrity whatever thou art forced to let go for its sake Take heed of pious frauds certainly it was the Devil that first married those two words together for they never did nor can agree betwixt themselves nor was ever such a marriage made in heaven Never study to model Religion and the exercises thereof in a consistency with o● subserviency to your fleshly interests if your Religion be but a mock Religion your reward shall be but a mock heaven that is a real hell O the vanity and inutility of these projects and designs men strive to cast themselves into such modes and stint themselves to such measures of Religion as they think will best promote or secure their earthly interests but it often falls out contrary to their expectation their deep pollicies are ridiculous follies they become the grief and shame of their friends and the scorn and song of their enemies And often it fares with them as with him that placed himself in the middle of the Table where he could neither reach the dish above him nor that below him Esuriunt medii c. and which is the very best of it if earthly interests be accommodated by sinful neutrality and a Laodicean indifferency in Religion yet no good man should once feel a temptation to embrace it except he think what is wanting in the sweetness of his sleep may be fully recompenced to him by the stateliness of his bed and richer furniture of his Chamber I mean that a fuller and higher condition in the world can make him amends for the loss of his inward peace and the quiet repose of a good conscience these by-ends and self-interests are the little passages through which hypocrisie creeps in upon the Professours of Religion O let this be your rejoycing which was Pauls the Testimony of your Conscience that in all sincerity and godly simplicity not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God you have had your Conversations in this world 2 Cor. 1. 12. Let that be your daily prayer cry to heaven which was David's Psal. 25. 21. Let integrity uprightness preserve me for I wait on thee Counsel 7. Keep your hearts day night under the awe of Gods a●l-seeing eye remember he beholds all your wayes and ponders all your thoughts how covertly soever hypocrisie may be carryed for a time all must will out at last Luke 12. 3. secresie is the main inducement to hypocrisie but it will fall out with the hypocrite as it did with Ottocar the King of Bohemia who refused to do homage to Rodulphus the Emperour till at last chastised with war he was content to do him homage privately in a Tent but the Tent was so contrived by the Emperours servants that by drawing one Cord it was taken all away so Ottocar presented on his knees doing homage in the view of three Armies Reader awe thy heart with Gods eye know that he will bring every secret thing into Judgment Thus did Iob it preserved him Iob. 31. 1 4. Thus did David it preserved him Psal. 18 21 22 23. Thus do thou also and it will preserve thee blameless and without guile to the day of Christ FINIS A Catalogue of BOOKS sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheap-side near Mercers●Chappel THE Fountain of Life open'd or a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory containing Forty two Sermons on various Texts Wherein the impetration of our Redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun carried on and finished by his Covenant Transaction my sterious Incarnation solemn Call and Dedication blessed Offices deep Abasement and Supereminent Advancement A Treatise of the Soul of Man wherein the Divine Original excellent and immortal Nature of the Soul are opened its Love and Inclination to the Body with the necessity of its Separation from it considered and Improved The Existence Operations and states of separated Souls both in Heaven and Hell immediately after Death asserted discussed and variously applied Divers knotty and difficult Questions about departed Souls both Philosophical and Theological stated and determined The Method of Grace in bringing home the Eternal Redemption contrived by the Father and accomplished by the Son through the Effectual Application of the Spirit unto Gods Elect being the second Part of Gospel Redemption The Divine Conduct or Mystery of Providence its Being and Efficacy asserted and vindicated all the Methods of Providence in our course of Life opened with Directions how to apply and improve them Navigation spiritualiz'd or a new Compass for Seamen consisting of Thirty Two Points of pleasant Observations profitable Applications serious Reflections all concluded with so many spiritual Poems c. Two Treatises the first of Fear the second the Righteous Mans Refuge in the evil Day A Saint indeed the great Work of a Christian A Touchstone of Sincerity or Signs of Grace and Symptoms of Hypocrisie being the second Part of the Saint indeed A Token for Mourners or boundaries for Sorrow for the Death of Friends Husbandry spiritualized Or the Heavenly use of Earthly Things All these Ten by Mr. Iohn Flavel A Funeral Sermon on the Death of that Pious Gentlewoman Mrs. Iudith Hammond late Wife of the Reverend Mr. George Hammond Minister of the Gospel in London Of Thoughtfulness for the Morrow With an Appendix concerning the immoderate Desire of foreknowing Things to come Of Charity in Reference to other Mens Sins The Redeemers Tears wept over lost ●ouls in a Treatise on Luke 19. 41 42. With ●n Appendix wherein somewhat is occasi●nally Discoursed concerning the Sin against the Holy Ghost and how God is said to Will the Salvation of them that Perish A Sermon directing what we are to do ●fter a strict Enquiry whether or no we ●ruly Love God A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Esther Samp●on the late Wife of Mr. Henry Sampson Doctor of Physick who Died Nov. 24 1689. The Carnality of Religious Contention ●n two Sermons Preach'd at the Merchants Lecture in Broadstreet A Calm and Sober Enquiry concerning ●he Possibility of a Trinity in the Godhead A Letter to a Friend concerning a Postscript to the Defence of Dr. Sherlock's Noti●on of the Trinity in Unity relating to the Calm and Sober Enquiry upon the same Subject A View of that Part of the late Conside●ations Addrest to H. H. about the Trinity Which concerns the Sober Enquiry on that Subject A Sermon Preach'd on the late Day of Thanksgiving Decemb. 2. 1697. To which ●s Prefixed Dr. Bates's Congratulatory Speech to the King All these Eleven by Mr. Iohn Howe Protestant Union Or Principles of Re●●igion to which English Protestants agree●● Wherein the main Principles of Religion owned by Dissenters agrees with the Articles and Homilies of the Church of England in two Sheets Price Two Pence The Main Principles of the Christia● Religion in One Hundred and Seven Arti●cles or Aphorisms of the Assemblies Shor● Catechism farther Cleared and Confirme● by the Consonant Doctrine recorded in several Articles and Homilies of the Churc● of England under these Four Heads viz. 1 Of Things to be believed comprehende● in the Creed 2. Of Things to be done in th● Ten Commandments 3. Of Things to b● Practised in the Gospel particulary the Tw● Sacraments 4. Of Things to be Prayed fo● in the Lords Prayer These Two by Mr. Tho. ● Adams M. A. * A Sain indeed Melch. Adams in vita Gobelini personae vixit Anno. 1420. Tot mysteria quo●verba Hieron Frigidos vocat planè à Christo alienos Fervidos verâ Christi cognitione in excellenti gradu praeditos Tepidos qui cum Christiani aici velint nec causam religionis serio agunt nec vitam confessioni conformem dignamque ducunt Sol. Glass Rhet. Sacra par 3. p. 165. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 destitutus Iustitiâ Sanctitate verâ coram Deo Grotius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec morbum sciens nec remedium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carens justitiâ quaev●stitus est Christianorum Pareus Nil miserius misero non miserante seipsum Hoc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est Christi extra quod nulla est salus 1 Pet. 3. 17. Ar. Mont. Dr. Goodwin Child of Light● Mr. A. Burges Dum probantur toti in fumum abeunt Quo ex judicio velut ex incendio nuddus effugit Chrysoft Magistratus indicat virum Tertul. in Apol. Timeo dicere sed dicendum est martyrium ipsum si ideo fiat ut admirationi laudi habeatur à fratribus frustr● sanguis effusus est Hier. Arist. Rhet. lib. 2. cap. 4. Dr. Reynolds Mr. Caryl Rara hora brevis mora fapit quidem suavissimè sed gustatur rarissimè B●rnard A sum adv simulatio n. 4. Rosellain v. Hypocrisis n. 1. See my Saint indeed p. 191 192 193 c. Iohn Wolfe lect memor To. 2. ad An. 1 549.