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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 9 › Section 2
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SECT. II.
But more particularly, let us bring our thoughts close to the matter before us; and we shall find many great advantages and benefits rising out of these Trials of sincerity; for,
BUt more particularly, let us bring our thoughts close to the matter before us; and we shall find many great advantages and benefits rising out of these Tryals of sincerity; for,
1. First, Hereby Hypocrisy is unmasked and discovered; The visor is plucked off from the false professor, and his true natural face and complexion shown to the world; and in this there is a great deal of good.
1. First, Hereby Hypocrisie is unmasked and discovered; The vizard is pluckt off from the false professour, and his true natural face and complexion shewn to the world; and in this there is a great deal of good.
Object. Good, you will say where lies it? all the world sees the mischief and sad effects of it; many are stumbled, many are hardened by it, woe to the world because of offenes,