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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. I.
•ECT. I.
ALL Flattery is dangerous, Self-flattery is more dangerous, but Self-flattery in the business of Salvation is the most dangerous of all.
ALL Flattery is dangerous, Self-flattery is more dange••us, but Self-flattery in the business of Salva••on is the most dangerous of all.
To pretend to the good we know we ha•• not, is-gross hypocrisy; to opine and persuade our selves of the good we have not, thou• we think we have it, is •ormal hypocrisy; a• this was the case of those Self-deceivers the Text.
To pretend to the good we know we ha•• not, is-gross hypocrisie; to o•ine and perswa• our selves of the good we have not, thou• we think we have it, is •ormal hypocrisie; a this was the case of those Self-deceivers the Text.