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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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My Text falls in the last Epistle, sent to the Church of Laodicea; the worst, and most degenerate of all the rest. The best had their defects, and infirmities; but this laboured under the most dangerous disease of all. The fairest face of the seven had some spots, but a dangerous disease seems to have invaded the very heart of this.
My Text falls in the last Epistle, sent to the Church of L•odicea; the worst, and most degenerate of all the rest. The best had their defects, and infirmities; but this laboured under the most dangerous disease of all. The fairest face of the seven had some spots, but a •angerous disease seems to have invaded the very heart of this.
Not that all were equally guilty, but the greatest part (from which the whole is denominated) were lukewarm professors; who •ad a name to live, but were dead, who being never throughly engaged in Religion, easily embraced that principle of the Gnost•ks which made it [Greek or Hebrew] a matter of indifferency ⟨p. 3⟩to own or deny Christ in time of persecution. The most saving Doctrine that •me Professors are acquainted with. This •kewarm temper Christ hated, he was sick […] them, and loathed their indifferency: I •ish (saith he) v. 16. thou wert either cold or •t; an expression of the same amount with •at in 1 King. 18. 21. how long halt you between […] opinions? And is manifestly translated •om the qualities of •ater,