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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.
And are you not troubled with a busy […] as well as with a bad Heart? Hath […] he that circuits the whole World observ• you? Hath he not studied your constitu•••on sins, and found out that sin which m••easily besets you? Hath he less malice against your Souls than others? Surely y• are in the very thick of temptations; thousands of snares are round about you. Oh ho• difficulty are the Righteous saved! How ha• to be upright! How few even of the prof•••sing World win Heaven at last!
And are you not troubled with a busie 〈…〉 as well as with a bad Heart? Hath 〈…〉 he that circuits the whole World observ• you? Hath he not studied your constitu•••on sins, and found out that sin which m••easily besets you? Hath he less malice ••gainst your Souls than others? Surely y• are in the very thick of temptations; tho••sands of snares are round about you. Oh ho• difficul•y are the Righteous saved! How ha• to be upright! How few even of the prof•••sing World win Heaven at last!
O therefore search your hearts, Professor• and let this caution go down to your vereins; let him that thinks he stands, take he lest be fall.