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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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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.
Quest. 6.
Do I make no Conscience of committing secret sins, or neglecting secret duties? or am I conscientious both in the one and other according to the rules and patterns of integrity? Matth. 6. 5, 6. Psal. 19. 12.
A few such Questions solemnly propounded to our own hearts, in a calm and serious hour, would sound them and discover much of their sincerity towards the Lord.
SECT. III.
And as upright hearts are too apt to apply to themselves the threats and miseries of Hypocrites, so Hypocrites on the contrary, are as apt to catch hold of the promises and privileges pertaining to believers.