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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 2 › Section 4
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First, Don't make this use of it, to co• clude from what hath been said, that all P• fessors are but a pack of Hypocrites, and th• there is no Truth nor Integrity in any Ma• this is both intolerable arrogance to ascen• the Throne of God, and unparalleled Unch•••ritableness to judge the hearts of all Men.
First, Don't make this use of it, to co• clude from what hath been said, that all P• fessors are but a pack of Hypocrites, and th• there is no Truth nor Integrity in any Ma• this is both intolerable arrogance to ascen• the Throne of God, and unparallel'd Unch•••ritableness to judge the hearts of all Men.
Some Men are as apt to conclude others • be Hypocrites, by measuring their hearts b• their own, as others are to conclude themselves Saints, by comparing their own exce• lencies with other Mens corruptions: but ble• sed be God there is some grain among th• heap of chaff, some true Diamonds among the counterfeit Stones. The Devil hath no• the whole piece; a remnant according […] election belongs really to the Lord.
Some Men are as apt to conclude others be Hypocrites, by measuring their hearts b their own, as others are to conclude theselves Saints, by comparing their own exce lencies with other Mens corruptions: but ble sed be God there is some grain among th heap of chaff, some true Diamonds amon the counterfeit Stones. The Devil hath no the whole piece; a remnant according election belongs really to the Lord.