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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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The Apostle speaking of Heresies, 1 Cor. ⟨p. 149⟩• • ▪ 7. 9. puts a necessity upon them. There •ust be Heresies (saith he) that they which are approved may be made manifest. The same necessity there is (and for the same end) of all o•her trials of grace, that the lovely beautiful •weet face of sincerity may be opened sometimes to the world to enamour them, and to •he soul in whom it is, to satisfy it that it •oth not personate a Christian, but lives the •ery life of a Christian, and hath the very spirit and principles of a Christian in him.
The Apostle speaking of Heresies, 1 Cor. ⟨p. 149⟩• • ▪ 7. 9. puts a necessity upon them. There •ust be Heresies (saith he) that they which are ap•roved may be made manifest. The same necessi•y there is (and for the same end) of all o•her tryals of grace, that the lovely beautiful •weet face of sincerity may be opened some•imes to the world to enamour them, and to •he soul in whom it is, to satisfie it that it •oth not personate a Christian, but lives the •ery life of a Christian, and hath the very •pirit and principles of a Christian in him.