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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 5
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Use. 2. Having showed you in the for• Section what use you ought no• make of this Doctrine, I will next show • what use you ought to make of it; and su• you cannot improve this point to a be• purpose than from it to take warni•• and look to your selves, that you be • of that number who deceive themselves […] their Profession. If this be so, suffer me clo••• to press that great Apostolical Caution. I • 10. 12. Let him that thinks he stands, take h• lest he fall. O Professors, look carefully your foundation; be not high minded, • fear: you have it may be done and suffer many things in and for Religion; you h• excellent gifts, and sweet comforts, a wa• zeal for God, and high confidence of y• integrity; all this may be right (for ou••• I or (it may be) you know) but yet 'tis p••• sible it may be false also; you have so•• times judged your selves, and pronoun your selves upright; but remember your nal Sentence is not yet pronounced by yo Judge. And what if God weigh you over gain in his more equal balance, & should Mene tekel, thou art weighed in the ballan