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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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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⟩his own hand, for many a Christian hath really found it in waiting upon the Lord by Prayer, and diligently searching the Scriptures and his own heart.
Reader, The time will come when they that scoff at the serious diligence of the Saints, and break many a pleasant Jest upon the most solemn and awful things in Religion, will tremble when they shall hear the Midnight-Cry, Behold •he Bridegroom cometh; and see the Lamps of all Vain and Formal Professors expire, and •one admitted into the Marriage, but such whose Lamps are furnished with Oil (i. e.) such whose professions and duties are enlivened and maintained by vital Springs and Principles of •eal Grace within them.
Reader, The time will come when they that •coff at the serious diligence of the Saints, and break many a pleasant Iest upon the most solemn and awful things in Religion, will tremble when they shall hear the Midnight-Cry, Behold •he Bridegroom cometh; and see the Lamps of all Vain and Formal Professors expire, and •one admitted into the Marriage, but such whose Lamps are furnished with Oyl (i. e.) such whose professions and duties are enlivened and •aintained by vital Springs and Principles of •eal Grace within them.