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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 5
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 30⟩others, which they scarce reprove in yo• selves? Are there not many by ends in d••• ties? Don't you find they are far less affect• with a great deal of service and honour do• to God by others, than with a little by yourselves?
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 ⟨p. 30⟩others, which they scarce reprove in yo• selves? Are there not many by ends in d••• ties? Don't you find they are far less affect• with a great deal of service and honour do• to God by others, than with a little by yo••selves?