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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
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.
To be really graceless, and Christless is miserable condition; but to be so, and y• confidently perswad• of the contrary,1 is mo• miserable: to have t•• very symptoms of Death upon us, and y• tell those that pity us, we are as well as the• is lamentable indeed.
- 1Nil miserius misero non miserante seipsum.
O the efficacy of a Spiritual Delusion This was their disease, gracelessness, and t•• aggravation of it, was their senselessness.
O the efficacy of a Spiritual Delusio• This was their disease, gracelesness, and t•• aggravation of it, was their senslesness.
2. Secondly, We have a proper reme• prescribed, v. 18. I counsel thee to buy of […] gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be ri• &c. In which we have to consider, Fi•• what is prescribed for the cure. Secondly where it is to be had. Thirdly, how to […] obtained.