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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 4 › Section 4
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Now though prosperity may too muc• influence, and ensnare the minds of goo• men, and estrange them too much from he•• venly things; yet thus to engross the• hearts, and convert them into their ow• similitude and nature, so that these thin• should be the Centre of there hearts, the v• ry proper element in which they live, is u•• terly impossible.
Now though prosperity may too muc• influence, and ensnare the minds of goo• men, and estrange them too much from he•• venly things; yet thus to engross the• hearts, and convert them into their ow• similitude and nature, so that these thin• should be the Centure of ther hearts, the v• ry proper element in which they live, is u•• terly impossible.
An Hypocrite indeed may be brought […] this, because though Janus like, he have tw• faces, yet he really hath but one principle and that is wholly carnal and earthly: […] that it's easy to make all the water to […] in one channel, to gather all into one enti•• stream, in which his heart shall pour out a• its strength to the Creature.