A39695:162
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.
O blessed design! how precious must that work be, which is wrought for so high and glorious a purpose as this is! no work mor• excellent, no end more noble.
7. Seventhly, Consider the means and ••• struments both principal, and subordinate, i•• ployed in this work: many blessed instr ••ments are set on work to beget, conserve and improve it in our souls: and these […] speak the precious worth of it: no wise ma• will dig for a base and worthless metal, wit• golden mattocks. The blood of Christ w•• shed to procure it, Heb. 13. 12.
7. Seventhly, Consider the means and ••• struments both principal, and subordinate, i•• ployed in this work: many blessed instr ••ments are set on work to beget, conserv• and improve it in our souls: and these 〈…〉 speak the precious worth of it: no wise ma• will dig for a base and worthless metal, wit• golden mattocks. The blood of Christ w•• shed to procure it, Heb. 13. 12.