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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
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.
To be deceived by another is bad enough but to deceive our selves is a thousand tim•• worse.
To be deceived by another is bad enoug• but to deceive our selves is a thousand tim•• worse.
To deceive our selves in truths of the S•• perstructure is bad, and they that do so sha•• suffer loss; 1 Cor. 3. 12. but to deceive […] selves in the foundation is a desperate decei•• and shipwrecks all our hope and happine•• at once.
To deceive our selves in truths of the S•• perstructure is bad, and they that do so sha•• suffer loss; 1 Cor. 3. 12. but to deceive 〈…〉 selves in the foundation is a desperate decei•• and shipwracks all our hope and happine•• at once.
If any Man lose his Money by a cheat it •ubles him, but to lose his Soul by a cheat will ••ound him: if a Man lose an Eye, an Ear, Hand, a Foot; yet omnia Deus dedit dupli, as Chrysostom speaks; God hath given ese Members double; so that there's another left; animan verò unam; but the Soul is […], and only one, and if that be damned, ou have not another to be saved.