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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.
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.
(3.) It doth not only raise the Spirit by ••versing with God, and things above; but •••sforms the soul, by that converse, into […] likeness of those heavenly Objects it con•• seth with. It changeth them into the same ••ge, 2 Cor. 3. 18. so that though the san••••ed Man still remains, the who he was, […] not the what he was before, the very •••per of his spirit is altered.
(3.) It doth not only raise the Spirit by ••versing with God, and things above; but •••sforms the soul, by that converse, into 〈…〉 likeness of those heavenly Objects it con•• seth with. It changeth them into the same ••ge, 2 Cor. 3. 18. so that though the san••••ed Man still remains, the who he was, 〈…〉 not the what he was before, the very •••per of his spirit is altered.
(4.) It doth not only transform the soul in ••ich it is, but preserves the subject in which […]: it is a singular preservative from sin; •hat though sin be in •hem still, and works them still; yet it cannot prevail in them […] to fulfil the lusts of it, as it was want to […]