A39695:661
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Hypocrite hath always more of the Moon, than of the Sun; little light, many spots & frequent changes: tit's easier to him to bow •o the cross, than to bear the Cross; to sin •han to suffer.
The Hypocrite hath alwayes more of the Moon, than of the Sun; little light, many spots & frequent changes: tit's easier to him to bow •o the cross, than to bear the Cross; to sin •han to suffer.
Our own story tells us of a poor simple woman tha• lived both in the reigns of Q. Mary, and Q. Elizabeth; and would constantly ⟨p. 198⟩say her prayers both in Latin and English that she might be sure to please one side or other; and let God, said she, take which likes him best: what is noted as an act of ridiculous simplicity in her, the time serving hypocrite accounts a point of deep policy in himself.
Our own story tells us of a poor simple woman tha• lived both in the reigns of Q. Mary, and Q. Elizabeth; and would constantly ⟨p. 198⟩say her prayers both in Latine and English that she might be sure to please one side or other; and let God, said she, take which likes him best: what is noted as an act of ridiculous simplicity in her, the time serving hypocrite accounts a point of deep policy in himself.