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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 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.
O take heed of this Laodicean neutrality & indifferency which Christ hates: be •ure your ground be good, and then be sure you stand your ground. The Religion of •ime-servers is but Hypocrisy: they have sluices in their Consciences which they can open or shut as occasion requires: every Fox will have at least two holes to his Den, •hat if one be stopped, he may escape at the o•her. The hypocrite poiseth himself so evenly •n a mediocrity, that as it was said of Baldwin, Let Anthony win, let Augustus win, all is one: So let Christ win, or let Antichrist win, •e hopes to make every wind that can blow, serviceable to wast him to the port of his own interest.
O take heed of this Laodicean neutrality & •ndifferency which Christ hates: be •ure your ground be good, and then be sure you stand your ground. The Religion of •ime-servers is but Hypocrisie: they have •luices in their Consciences which they can open or shut as occasion requires: every Fox will have at least two holes to his Den, •hat if one be stopt, he may escape at the o•her. The hypocrite poyseth himself so evenly n a mediocrity, that as it was said of Baldwin, Let Anthony win, let Augustus win, all is one: So let Christ win, or let Antichrist win, e hopes to make every wind that can blow, erviceable to wast him to the port of his own interest.