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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 1
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First, What are the remedies prescribe and they are three; Gold, White-raiment, a•• Eye-salve. First, Gold the cure of Povert•• yea, Gold tried in the Fire, (i. e.) grace th• hath been variously proved already, and t•• more it is proved, the more its truth will […] conspicuous. The next is White-raiment, t•• remedy against nakedness. And lastly E••• salve, the effectual cure of blindness. Undo ⟨p. 7⟩these choice Metaphors, more choice and •cellent things are shadowed, even spiritu•• Graces, real Holiness, more precious than old. Christs imputed Righteousness, the ••hest garment in all the Wardrobe of Hea••n; and spiritual illumination, the most excellent Collyrium or Eye-salve that ever was •••can be applied to the men•al eye or understanding of Man in this World.
First, What are the remedies prescribe and they are three; Gold, White-rayment, a•• Eye-salve. First, Gold the cure of Povert•• yea, Gold tried in the Fire, (i. e.) grace th• hath been variously proved already, and t•• more it is proved, the more its truth will 〈…〉 conspicuous. The next is White-rayment, t•• remedy against nakedness. And lastly E••• salve, the effectual cure of blindness. Und• ⟨p. 7⟩