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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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It comes to thy hand, Reader, in a day o• straits and fears, a dark and gloomy season•• when the Nations about us are made drunk with their own blood, and filled with the […] of astonishment; In a day when the […] ready to pass unto us, and a storm seems to […] rising in the fears of many, and threatening th• Protestant interest in these reformed Nations▪ Sty Men very considerable for Piety and Learning from that Scripture, Rev. 13. 3. The deadly wound, (viz. that given the beast by the Reformation) was healed, have concluded that Popery will once more over run the reformed Nations; and one of great renown in all the Churches of Christ, foretelling this furious (but hort) srtom, comforts the People of God with this, that it is like to fall heaviest upon the Worshippers in the outward Court, namely, the formal Professors of the times.
It comes to thy hand, Reader, in a day o• straits and fears, a dark and gloomy season•• when the Nations about us are made drun• with their own blood, and filled with the 〈…〉 of astonishment; In a day when the 〈…〉 ready to pass unto us, and a storm seems to 〈…〉 rising in the fears of many, and threatning th• Protestant interest in these reformed Nations▪ St•e Men very considerable for Piety and Learning from that Scripture, Rev. 13. 3. The deadly wound, (viz. that given the beast by the Reformation) was healed, have concluded that Popery will once more over run the reformed Nations; and one of great renown in all the Churches of Christ, foretelling this furious (but hort) srtom, comforts the People of God with this, that it is like to fall heaviest upon the Worshipp•rs in the outward Court, namely, the formal Professors of the times.