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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. 3.
Have I not some secret reserves in my heart, notwithstanding that face and appearance of zeal which I put on? certainly if there be any sin that I cannot part with, any suffering for Christ which I resolve against in my heart: I am none of his disciple, my heart is not right with God, the searcher of hearts himself being Judge, Luke 14. 26, 27.
Quest. 4.
What Conscience do I make of secret sins? do I mourn for a vain heart, wandering thoughts, spiritual deadness? and do I conscientiously abstain from the practice of secret sins, when there is no danger of discovery, no fear of forfeiting my reputation by it? is it Gods eye, or mans that awes me from commission of sin? certainly, if I allow my self in secret sins; I am not of the number of Gods upright people; whose spirits are of a contrary temper to mine, Psal. 119. 113▪ and Psal. 19. 12.