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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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Counsel 3.
Scare your selves with the daily fears of the sin, that is in, and the misery that will follow hypocrisy: look upon it as the most odious sin in the eyes of God, and men: to want holiness is bad enough, but to simulate and pretend it when we have it not, is double impiety: to make Religion the most glorious thing in the world, a mere stirrup to preferment, and a covert to wickedness; Oh ⟨p. 196⟩how vile a thing is it! God made Christ a Sacrifice for sin, and the Hypocrite will make him a Cloak for sin.
Scare your selves with the daily fears of the sin, that is in, and the misery that will follow hypocrisie: look upon it as the most odious sin in the eyes of God, and men: to want holiness is bad enough, but to simulate and pretend it when we have it not, is double impiety: to make Religion the most glorious •hing in the world, a meer stirrup to preserment, and a covert to wickedness; Oh ⟨p. 196⟩how vile a thing is it! God made Christ a Sacrifice for sin, and the Hypocrite will make him a Cloak for sin.
And as to the punishments that follow it, they are suitable to the nature of the sin for as hypocrisy is out of measure sinful so the reward and punishment of it, will be out of measure dreadful.