A39695:653
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 4.
Be daily at work in the mortification of those Lusts that breed hypocrisy. It's plain without much sifting, that pride, vain glory, self-love▪ and a worldly heart are the seeds out of which this cursed plant springs up in the souls of men. Dig but to the root, and you shall certainly find these things there; and •ill the Lord help you to kill and mortify these, hypocrisy will spring up in all your duties to God, & in all your converses with men.
Be daily at work in the mortification of those Lusts that breed hypocrisie. It's plain without much sifting, that pride, vain glory, self-love▪ and a worldly heart are the seeds out of which this cursed plant springs up in the souls of men. Dig but to the root, and you shall certainly find these things there; and •ill the Lord help you to kill and mortifie these, hypocrisie will spring up in all your duties to God, & in all your converses with men.