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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
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.
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.
SECT. V.
I Will shut up all with five or six concluding Counsels, (which the Lord-impress upon the heart of him that writes, and those that shall read them) to preserve and antidote ⟨p. 194⟩the soul against the dangerous insinuation and Leaven of Hypocrisy.
I Will shut up all with five or six concluding Counsels, (which the Lord-impress upon the heart of him that writes, and those that shall read them) to preserve and antidote