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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 11 › Section 1
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Lo this is the man that made not God his hope this is he that wore a garment of profession to deceive, but God hath now stripped him ⟨p. 167⟩out of it, and all men see what he is: for, there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and hid that shall not be known: Matth. 10. 26. and the Apostle assures us, 1. Tim. 5. 24, 25. that they that are otherwise cannot be hid: if mens works be not good, it's impossible they should be hid long: a gilded piece of brass may pass from hand to hand a little while; but the touchstone will discover the base metal: if that do not, the fire will.
Loe this is the man that made not God his hope this is he that wore a garment of profession to deceive, but God hath now stript him ⟨p. 167⟩out of it, and all men see what he is: for, there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and hid that shall not be known: Matth. 10. 26. and the Apostle assures us, 1. Tim. 5. 24, 25. that they that are otherwise cannot be hid: if mens works be not good, it's impossible they should be hid long: a gilded piece of brass may pass from hand to hand a little while; but the touchstone will discover the base metal: if that do not, the fire will.
O sinners, away with your Hypocrisy, be honest, sincere, plain, and hearty in Religion; if not, confusion of face shall be your recompense from the Lord, that is what you shall get by it.
O sinners, away with your Hypocrisie, be honest, sincere, plain, and hearty in Religion; if not, confusion of face shall be your recompence from the Lord, that is what you shall get by it.