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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 3
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4. Lastly, To add here no more, this strengthens self deceit exceedingly in many, viz their observations of and comparing themselves with others. Thus the Pharisees, (those gross self deceivers) trusted in themselves tha• they were righteous and despised others, Luke 18•• 9. their low rating of others, gave them tha• high rate and value of themselves: and thu• the proverb is made good, regnat luscus inte• c•cos, he that hath but one eye, is a King among the blind.
4. Lastly, To add here no more, this strength••ens self deceit exceedingly in many, viz• their observations of and comparing them•selves with others. Thus the Pharisees, (thos• gross self deceivers) trusted in themselves tha• they were righteous and despised others, Luke 18•• 9. their low rating of others, gave them tha• high rate and value of themselves: and thu• the proverb is made good, regnat luscus inte• c•cos, he that hath but one eye, is a King among the blind.