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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 2
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I may say of your vain and groundless hopes, as Christ in another sense said to the officers that came to seize him in the garden• if you seek me, let these go their way. So 'ti• here, if you expect Christ and salvation by him; let your vain confidences go their way: away with your masques and visors▪ ⟨p. 179⟩•f ever you expect to see Christ. O 'tis your happiness to have all these things stripped off, and your nakedness and poverty discovered, •hat you may be rich as the Text speaks.
I may say of your vain and groundless hopes, as Christ in another sense said to the officers that came to seize him in the garden• if you seek me, let these go their way. So 'ti• here, if you expect Christ and salvation by him; let your vain confidences go their way: away with your masques and vizards▪ ⟨p. 179⟩•f ever you expect to see Christ. O 'tis your •appiness to have all these things stript off, and your nakedness and poverty discovered, •hat you may be rich as the Text speaks.
Motive 6. Sixthly, Consider how near the ••ay of Death and Judgment approach you. Oh these are searching days wherein you cannot be hid: will your consciences, think you, be put off in a dying day as easily as •hey are now? no, no; you know they ill not.