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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 12 › Section 2
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SECT. II.
Well then, let not the upright be unjust to themselves in censuring their own hearts: they are bad enough, but let us not make them worse than they are, but thankfully own and acknowledge the least degrees of grace and integrity in them: and possibly our uprightness might be sooner discovered to us, if in a due composure of spirit, we would sit down and attend the true answers of our own hearts to such questions as these are.
WEll then, let not the upright be unjust to themselves in censuring their own hearts: they are bad enough, but let us not make them worse than they are, but thankfully own and acknowledge the least degrees of grace and integrity in them: and possibly our uprightness might be sooner discove•ed to us, if in a due composure of spirit, we would sit down and attend the true answers of our own hearts to such questio•s as these are.