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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 4
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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 the••selves 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.
2. Secondly, Don't make this use of it, tha• assurance must needs be impossible, becau•• so many Professors are found to be Self deceivers.
2. Secondly, Don't make this use of it, tha• assurance must needs be impossible, becau•• so many Professors are found to be Self deceivers.