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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 8 › Section 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.
But yet it is not every Trial by suffered that separates gold form dross, and there•• my business will be to show,
But yet it is not every Tryal by sufferi• that seperates gold form dross, and there•• my business will be to shew,
1. First, When the fire of sufferings • persecution is hot and vehement enough separate them.
2. Secondly, Why it must needs disco•• hypocrisy when it is at that height.
2. Secondly, Why it must needs disco•• hypocrisie when it is at that height.
3. Thirdly, What advantages sin•• Grace hath to endure that severe and sh trial.