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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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Reader, thou hast heard of Judas & Demas, • Ananias & Sapphira, of Hymeneus and Philem; once renowned and famous Professors, thou hast heard what they proved at last. ••Take heed their case be not thine own; […] they not all as it were with one mouth […] to thee, O Professor! if thou wilt not •me where we are, don't cozen thy self […] we did: if thou expectest a better place •••d lot, be sure thou get a sincerer Heart: •••d we been more self-suspicious, we had •••en more safe.
Reader, thou hast heard of Iudas & Demas, • Ananias & Sapphira, of Hymeneus and Phile•; once renowned and famous Professors, thou hast heard what they proved at last. ••Take heed their case be not thine own; 〈…〉 they not all as it were with one mouth 〈…〉 to thee, O Professor! if thou wilt not •me where we are, don't couzen thy self 〈…〉 we did: if thou expectest a better place •••d lot, be sure thou get a sincerer Heart: •••d we been more self-suspicious, we had •••en more safe.
I would not scare you with needless jealou•s, but I would fain prevent fatal mistakes. •on't you find your hearts deceitful in ma•y things? Don't they shuffle over secret uties? Don't they ensure the same evils in