A39695:631
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.
Your respects and love to them that are the sincere and upright servants of God, will not clear you from the danger of being Hypocrites your selves: for the bare loving of a Christian is not Characteristical and evidential of a mans own Christianity, except he love him, qua talis, as he is a Christian, or as he belongs to Christ: & so his sincerity becomes the attractive of thy affection. There be a thousand by considerations & respects that may kindle a mans love to the Saints, besides their integrity.
SECT. IV.
Well then, if thou wouldst indeed see the unsoundness of thy own heart, propound such heart sounding Questions as these to thy self.
WEll then, if thou wouldst indeed see the unsoundness of thy own heart, propound such heart sounding Questions as these to thy self.