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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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Infer. 4. Fourthly, Doth God kindle so many fires in Zion, and set his Furnaces in Jerusalem to discover and separate the dross from the gold, how contrary are those men to God that allow, yea and prize the dross of Hypocrisy which God hates, and stick not to make the holy God a patronizer and countenancer of it in the hearts and lives of men!
Infer. 4. Fourthly, Doth God kindle so many fires in Sion, and set his Furnaces in Ierusalem to discover and separate the dross from the gold, how contrary are those men to God that allow, yea and prize the dross of Hypocrisie which God hates, and stick not to make the holy God a patronizer and countenancer of it in the hearts and lives of men!
It is amazing to read what Popish pens ⟨p. 170⟩have impudently written about this matter Sylvester puts the question,1 whether it be a sin to make a false show of sanctity? and answers it thus: If it be for the honour of God, and profit of others, it is no sin: nay, they have a reverence for hypocrisy as an holy Art. Vincentius spends a whole Chapter in commendation of the hypocrisy of St. Dominick; and entitles it, de sancta ejus hypocrisy, (i. e.) of the holy hypocrisy of that Saint: reckoning it among his commendations, that he had the art of dissembling. And yet one peg higher, A Religious person (saith another) that feigns himself2 to have more holiness than he hath, that others may be edified, sins not but rather merits.
It is amazing to read what Popish pens ⟨p. 170⟩have impudently written about this matter Sylvester puts the question,1