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…

Name: The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened…
Author: John Flavel

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 ...

John Flavel 1630?–1691London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698

[10], 200, [4] p. · 50k words · Wing F1202 · ESTC R40933

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THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 1

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Secondly, Where these precious remedies •ay be had, and you find Christ hath the monopoly of them all; • of me, ¹saith Christ the Text; he is the •ository of all Graces. gels, Ministers, Ordinances, cannot fur••h you with them, without Christ.

Secondly, Where these precious remedies •ay be had, and you find Christ hath the •onopoly of them all; • of me, ¹saith Christ the Text; he is the •ository of all Graces. •gels, Ministers, Ordinances, cannot fur••h you with them, without Christ.

1Hoc [Greek or Hebrew] est Christi, extra quod nulla est salus.Hoc 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 est Christi, extra quod nulla est salus.

:47p. 7–8

Thirdly, How they may be obtained •m him; buy of me; on this place Estius, […] others build their Doctrine of Merit; •ich is to build a superstructure of Hay […] Stubble upon a foundation of Gold. The •••gence of the very Text it self destroys ••h conceits: for what have they that are r, wretched, miserable, and want all gs, to give as a price, or by way of meor those inestimable treasures of Grace? ing therefore in this place, can signify or nd no more than the acquisition, coming, or obtaining these things from Jesus st in the use of such means and methods

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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…

CHAP. II.

•herein the first Doctrine is opened and improved briefly as a preliminary discourse to the principal subject herein designed.

•oct. 1. That many professors of Religion are under very great and dangerous mistakes in their profession.

SECT. I.

•ECT. I.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. II.

•herein the first Doctrine is opened and improved briefly as a preliminary discourse to the principal subject herein designed.

•oct. 1. That many professors of Religion are under very great and dangerous mistakes in their profession.

SECT. I.

•ECT. I.