A39695:41
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 1
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, poor, that is, void of Righteousness, ••d true Holiness be••re God;1 these are •e true riches of Chri•••ans, and whoso •ants them, is poor, and miserable; how •ch soever he be in gifts of the mind, or •easures of the earth.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] destitutus Justitiâ, & Sanctitate verâ coram Deo. Grotius.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 destitutus Iustitiâ, & Sanctitate verâ coram Deo. Grotius.
Secondly, Blind, (i. e.) without spiritual rumination,1 and so •ither knowing their •ease, nor their reme•; the evil of Sin, or necessity of Christ. •rham in Loc.
Secondly, Blind, (i. e.) without spiritual •umination,1 and so •ither knowing their •ease, nor their reme•; the evil of Sin, or necessity of Christ. •rham in Loc.