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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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O deceive not your selves with names & •otions! think not, because you are for a •••ricter way of Worship, or because you as•cia•e with (and are accordingly denominated) one of the more reformed Professors; ••at therefore you are safe enough: alas! how ••all an interest have titles, modes, and de•omi••tions in Religion? Suppose a curious Artist take a lump of Lead and refine it, and •ast it into the Mould; whence it comes •orth shining, and bearing some noble figure, suppose of an Eagle, yet it is but a leaden Eagle. ⟨p. 32⟩Suppose the Figure of a Man, and that […] the most exact lineaments and proportion […] yet still is it but a leaden Man. Nay, let […] bear the Figure of an Angel, it is but a lead•• Angel: for the base and ignoble matter […] the same it was, though the Figure be no•• Even so, Take an Unregenerate carnal Ma• let his life be reformed, and his tongue refined; and call him a zealous Conformist, […] a strict Non-conformist; call him a Presbyter•• an, an Independent or what you will; he […] all the while but a carnal Conformist, […] Non-conformist; an unregenerate Presbyt•• rian, a carnal Independent; for the nature […] still the same, though the stamp and figu•• his Profession gives him, be not the same.
O deceive not your selves with names & •otions! think not, because you are for a •••ricter way of Worship, or because you as•ciae with (and are accordingly denomiated) one of the more reformed Professors; at therefore you are safe enough: alas! how all an interest have titles, modes, and deomitions in Religion? Suppose a curious Artist take a lump of Lead and refine it, and ast it into the Mould; whence it comes orth shining, and bearing some noble figure, uppose of an Eagle, yet it is but a leaden Eagle.