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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 8 › Section 2
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First, When Religion exposes us to eminent hazard of our deepest and dearest interests in this world. Such are our liberties, states, and lives: now 'tis a fierce and fiery •yal indeed. Sometimes it exposes the liberties of its professors, Revel. 2. 10. The •vil shall cast some of you into prison: some•mes their estates, Heb. 10. 34. ye took jolly the spoiling of your goods; and sometimes •eir lives, Heb. 11. 37. They were stoned they •ere sawn asunder, they were slain with the •ord. Whilst it goes no higher than some •all inconveniences of life, rep••ation & •nse of honour will hold a false heart; •t when it comes to this, few will be found •le to endure it, but those that expect to •ve no •ore by Religion but thei• souls, and •count themselves in good case if they can •t save them, with the loss of all that is dear […] them in this world.
First, When Religion exposess us to emi•ent hazard of our deepest and dearest in••rests in this world. Such are our liberties, •tates, and lives: now'tis a fierce and fiery •yal indeed. Sometimes it exposes the li•erties of its professours,