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…

And yet more amazing is that stroke of God upon multitudes of vain and formal professors even in the Reformed Protestant Churches; where no man is restrained from searching the Scriptures; nay, wher• men are so frequently and earnestly presse• from Sabbath to Sabbath to examine them selves, and prove their own work, that yet […] many are content to leave all at hazard […] and without any more ado or farther search in the matter, credit the report of their ow• deceitful hearts, & take all for granted without due trial or examination of the matter

And yet more amazing is that stroke of God upon multitudes of vain and formal professours even in the Reformed Protestant Churches; where no man is restrained from searching the Scriptures; nay, wher• men are so frequently and earnestly presse• from Sabbath to Sabbath to examine them selves, and prove their own work, that yet 〈…〉 many are content to leave all at hazard 〈…〉 and without any more ado or farther search in the matter, credit the report of their ow• deceitful hearts, & take all for granted without due tryal or examination of the matter

Surely, no one thing sends down more •ouls daily to hell out of the professing world, •han this doth. The five foolish Virgins (i. e. •he unprincipled Professors in the Reformed Churches) perished this way. They took […] for granted all was well, because they had •amps of profession as well as others; and saw •ot the cheat, till the cry was heard at midnight, and their unfurnished Lamps went ut,