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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 7 › Section 2
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Secondly, In those low and vile thoug•• they have of themselves, and their religi• performances: thus that poor peni••• Luke 7. 38. stood behind Christ weepi•• yet the dogs eat the crumbs, saith anot•• Mark 7. 28. I am more brutish than • man, saith a third, Prov. 30. 7. I abho•• self in dust and ashes, saith a fourth, Job • 6. and as little esteem they have for t•• performances, Esa, 64. 6. all our righteous••• are as filthy rags. I deny not but the•• pride and vanity in the most upright o•• but what place soever it finds in their • ver•es with men, it finds little room in t•• converses with God; or if it do, they lo• it, and themselves for i•.
Secondly, In those low and vile thoug•• they have of themselves, and their religi• performances: thus that poor peni••• Luke 7. 38. stood behind Christ weepi•• yet the dogs eat the crumbs, saith anot••