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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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There is a twofold Self-suspicion or […] in Gods own People. The one is a fear caution, awaking the Soul to the use of […] preventive means for avoiding danger; […] is Laudable. The other a groundless suspici•• of reigning hypocrisy, tending only to […] spondency; this is Culpable: by the form the soul is guarded against danger, by the […] ter it is betrayed into needless trouble; a•• debarred from peace.
There is a twofold Self-suspicion or 〈…〉 in Gods own People. The one is a fear caution, awaking the Soul to the use of 〈…〉 preventive means for avoiding danger; 〈…〉 is Laudable. The other a groundless suspici•• of reigning hypocrisie, tending only to 〈…〉 spondency; this is Culpable: by the form the soul is guarded against danger, by the 〈…〉 ter it is betrayed into needless trouble; a•• debaried from peace.
Good Men have sometimes more fear th• they ought, and Wicked Men have less th•• they ought: the former do sometimes sh• their eyes against the fair evidences of the own graces, the latter shut their eyes again the sad evidences of their Sin and Misery. T• is an evil in both, but not equally dangero•• for he that shuts his Eyes against his ow•••aces ⟨p. 11⟩and privileges, loseth but his peace & •mfort for a time; but he that shuts his es against the evidences of his Sin and ery looseth his precious soul to all eterni! of this latter sort of Self-deceivers the orld is full, and these are the Men I am cerned with in this point.