A39695:623
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.
Rule 2.
Zeal and forwardness in the cause of God, and for the reformation of his worship, will not clear a man from the danger of Hypocrisy. Jehu was a zealous reformer, and yet but a painted Sepulchre. In the year 1549. Reformation grew so much in reputation even among the Nobles and Gentry of Germany, that many of them caused these five letters V. D. M. I. AE. being the initial letters of these words, v•rbum domini manet in aeternum, (i. e.) the word of the Lord abideth for ever; to be wrought or embroidered, or set in plates, some upon their Cloaks, and others upon the sleeves of their Garments; to show to all the world, (•aith my Author) that forsaking all Popish Traditions they would now cleave1 to the pure doctrine and discipline of the eternal word.
Zeal and forwardness in the cause of God, and for the reformation of his worship, will not clear a man from the danger of Hypocrisie. Iehu was a zealous reformer, and yet but a painted Sepulchre. In the year 1549. Reformation grew so much in reputation even among the Nobles and Gentry of Germany, that many of them caused these five letters V. D. M. I. AE. being the initial letters of these words, v•rbum domini manet in aeternum, (i. e.) the word of the Lord abideth for ever; to be wrought or embroidered, or set in plates, some upon their Cloaks, and others upon the sleeves of their Garments; to shew to all the world, (•aith my Author) that forsaking all Popish Traditions they would now cleave1 to the pure doctrine and discipline of the eternal word.
- 1John Wolfe, lect. memor. To. 2. ad An. 1 549.