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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 10 › Section 3
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Reader, There are two sad sights in the ⟨p. 160⟩world, which cannot but deeply affect every upright heart: one is to see so many thousands of rational and ingenious men in the Romish Church by an implicit faith in their guides, venturing their souls upon their bare word, never searching the Scriptures with their own eyes, but wholly trusting to the infallibility of the Pope, or a Council, when in the mean time, they would fear to take their word for a sum of money without some farther security. It is amazing to behold the soul-destroying, easy credulity of these men: but this is a stroke of madness and spiritual infatuation judicially inflicted upon them; that the judgment which i• written might be fulfilled in them, God shal• send them strong delusions that they should believ• a lye, 2 Thes. 2. 11.
Reader, There are two sad sights in the ⟨p. 160⟩world, which cannot but deeply affect every upright heart: one is to see so many thousands of rational and ingenious men in the Romish Church by an implicite faith in their guides, venturing their souls upon their bare word, never searching the Scriptures with their own eyes, but wholly trusting to the infallibility of the Pope, or a Council, when in the mean time, they would fear to take their word for a sum of money withou• some farther security. It is amazing to behold the soul-destroying, easie credulity of these men: but this is a stroke of madnes• and spiritual infatuation judicially inflicted upon them; that the judgment which i• written might be fulfilled in them, God shal• send them strong delusions that they should believ• a lye, 2 Thes. 2. 11.