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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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Rule 6.
The doubts and fears that hang upon and perplex our spirits about the hypocrisy of our hearts, do not conclude that therefore we are what we fear our selves to be. God will not condemn every one for an hypocrite that suspects, yea, or charges himself with Hypocrisy Holy David thought his heart was not right with God, after that great slip of his in the matter of Uriah, and therefore begs of God to renew a right spirit in him, Psal. 51. 10, 11, 12. his integrity was indeed wounded and he thought destroyed by that fall.
The doubts and fears that hang upon and perplex our spirits about the hypocrisie of our hearts, do not conclude that therefore we are what we fear our selves to be. God will not condemn every one for an hypocrite that suspects, yea, or charges himself with Hypocrisie Holy David thought his heart was not right with God, after that great slip of his in the matter of Uriah, and therefore begs of God to renew a right spirit in him, Psal. 51. 10, 11, 12. his integrity was indeed wounded and he thought destroyed by that fall.
Holy Master Bradford so vehemently doubted the sincerity of his heart, that he ⟨p. 187⟩