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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 3.
It is no sufficient evidence of a mans own integrity, that he hates hypocrisy in another: for ⟨p. 191⟩as one proud man may hate another, and he that's Covetous himself, will be apt to censure another for being so; (Lusts may be contrary to one another, as well as all of them contrary to grace) so may an hypocrite loath that in another, which yet he alloweth in himself: nay 'tis the policy of some to declaim against the Hypocrisy of others, thereby to hide their own. Hypocrites are none of the most modest censurers of others, Psal. 35. 16. A salt j•st seasoned their meat.
It is no sufficient evidence of a mans own integrity, that he hates hypocrisie in another: for ⟨p. 191⟩as one proud man may hate another, and he that's Covetous himself, will be apt to censure another for being so; (Lusts may be contrary to one another, as well as all of them contrary to grace) so may an hypocrite loath that in another, which yet he alloweth in himself: nay 'tis the policy of some to declaim against the Hypocrisie of others, thereby to hide their own. Hypocrites are none of the most modest censurers of others, Psal. 35. 16. A salt j•st seasoned their meat.