A39695:584
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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Rule 1.
We may not presently conclude we are in […] state of Hypocrisy, because we find some working of it, and tendencies to it in our spirits: the be• gold hath some dross and alloy in it. Hypocrisy is a weed naturally springing in […] ground, the best heart is not perfectly cle•• free of it: it may be we are stumbled whe• we feel some workings or grudgings of th• disease in our selves, and looking into su•• Scriptures as these, Joh. 1. 47. Behold an […] ⟨p. 181⟩raelite indeed, in whom there is no guile: and Psal. 32. 1. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
We may not presently conclude we are in 〈…〉 state of Hypocrisie, because we find some working of it, and tendencies to it in our spirits: the be• gold hath some dross and alloy in it. Hyp••crisie is a weed naturally springing in 〈…〉 ground, the best heart is not perfectly cle•• free of it: it may be we are stumbled whe• we feel some workings or grudgings of th• disease in our selves, and looking into su•• Scriptures as these,