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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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Thirdly, Hereby the poor self-cozening hypocrite hath the greatest opportunity and advantage that ever was before him in all his life, to recover himself out of the snare of the Devil: now all his pretences are gone: now that which like a shield was advanced ⟨p. 148⟩against the arrows of reproof and conviction is gone: now a poor creature stands naked and stripped out of all his pleas as a fair and • pen mark to the word, and his own conscience; and happy will it be for him if now the Lord make conviction to enter point-blank into his•soul: all these are blessed effects of the discovery of Hypocrisy.
Thirdly, Hereby the poor self-couzening hypocrite hath the greatest opportunity and advantage that ever was before him in all his life, to recover himself out of the snare of the Devil: now all his pretences are gone: now that which like a shield was advanced ⟨p. 148⟩against the arrows of reproof and convictio• is gone: now a poor creature stands nake• and stript out of all his pleas as a fair and • pen mark to the word, and his own conscience; and happy will it be for him if now the Lord make conviction to enter pointblank into his•soul: all these are blessed effects of the discovery of Hypocrisie.
2. Secondly, By these trials integrity is cleared up, and the doubts and fears of many upright and holly ones allayed and quieted, resolved and satisfied.
2. Secondly, By these tryals integrity is cleared up, and the doubts and fears of many upright and holly ones allayed and quieted, resolved and satisfied.