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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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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 offen•es, Matth. 16. 7.
Object. Good, you will say where lyes it? all the world sees the mischief and sad effects of it; many are stumbled, many are hardned by it, woe to the world because of offen•es, Matth. 16. 7.
Sol. True, some are prejudiced and hardened by it, so as never to have good thoughts of the ways and people of God more; that's sad indeed, however therein ⟨p. 147⟩God accomplishes his word, and executeth his decree. And though these perish; yet
Sol. True, some are prejudiced and hardened by it, so as never to have good thoughts of the wayes and people of God more; that's sad indeed, however therein