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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 5.
Attend the native voice of your own consciences in the day of sickness, fear or trouble, and take special notice of its checks, or upbraidings; which like a stitch in your side will gird you at such times; Commonly in that lies your greatest danger: beware of that evil which Conscience brands and marks at such times, whether it be your living in the practice of ⟨p. 197⟩•ome secret sin, or in the neglect of some known duty: these frights of Conscience mark out the corruption wherein your danger mostly lies.
Attend the native voice of your own consciences in the day of sickness, fear or trouble, and take special notice of its checks, or upbraidings; which like a stitch in your side will gird you at such times; Commonly in that lyes your greatest danger: beware of that evil which Conscience brands and marks at such times, whether it be your living in the practice of ⟨p. 197⟩•ome secret sin, or in the neglect of some known duty: these frights of Conscience mark out the corruption wherein your danger mostly lyes.
Counsel 6. Let us all that profess Religion be uniform and steady in the profession and practice of it, without politic reserves, and by•ends.
Counsel 6. Let us all that profess Religion be uniform and steady in the profession and practice of it, without politick reserves, and by•ends.