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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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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 ⟨p. 147⟩God accomplishes his word, and executeth his decree. And though these perish; yet
First, Others are warned, awakened, and set a searching their own hearts more narrowly than ever; and this is good: 1 Cor. 10. 11, 12. now these were our examples, wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.