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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 1
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CHAP. I.
Wherein the Text is opened, and the Doctrines propounded.
Although the Revelation be a compendium of intricate Visions and obscure Prophecies, containing almost as many mysteries as words:1 yet that cloud overshadows the Propheti•• ⟨p. 2⟩part only; which begins where this Chapter (with the doctrinal part) ends: here th• Waters are found no deeper than in othe• places of Scripture; but if we go a little farther they become an overflowing flood: hitherto we touch ground, but a step farther deliver us into the deeps, which are above the head of the tallest Christians: here the Spirit speaks doctrinally, and perspicuously; but i• the following Chapters mystically, and i• great obscurity.
ALthough the Revelation be a compendium of intricate Visions and obscure Prophecies, containing almost as many mysteries as words:1 yet that cloud overshadows the Propheti••