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…

This may seem but a dull melancholy life to the brisk and airy Spirits of these times; but let us be content with it as it is, and leave them (if we cannot have their company) to their •portiveness and frolics, never once grudging ••em their short and dear bought pleasures. Assurance that sin is pardoned and Christ is ours; •ith the unspeakable joys that are inseparably connected therewith is that White Stone, and New Name, which none knows but he that ••eives it; for no words can possibly signify to ••other what that soul tastes and feels in such an our as that is.

This may seem but a dull melancholy life to the brisk and aiery Spirits of these times; but let us be content with it as it is, and leave them (if we cannot have their company) to their •portiveness and frolicks, never once grudging ••em their short and dear bought pleasures. Assu•ance that sin is pardoned• and Christ is ours; •ith the unspeakable joys that are inseparably ••nnected therewith is that White Stone, and New Name, which none knows but he that ••eives it; for no words can possibly signifie to ••other what that soul tasts and feels in such an our as that is.

And be not discouraged at the difficulty of ob•ining it, this White Stone is no Philosophers one, which no Man could ever say, he had in ⟨image 4⟩