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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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O let this be your rejoicing which was Pauls, the Testimony of your Conscience, that in all sincerity and godly simplicity, not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, you have had your Conversations in this world, 2 Cor. 1. 12.
O let this be your rejoycing which was Pauls, the Testimony of your Conscience, that in all sincerity and godly simplicity, not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, you have had your Conversations in this world, 2 Cor. 1. 12.
Let that be your daily prayer & cry to heaven, which was David's, Psal. 25. 21. Let integrity & uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee.
Counsel 7. Keep your hearts day & night under the awe of Gods a•l-seeing eye: remember he beholds all your ways, and ponders all your thoughts; how covertly soever hypocrisy may be carried for a time, all must & will out at last, Luke 12. 3. secrecy is the main inducement to hypocrisy, but it will fall out with the hypocrite, as it did with Ottocar the King of Bohemia, who refused to do homage to Rodulphus the Emperor, till at last chastised with war, he was content to do him homage privately in a Tent: but the Tent was so contrived by the Emperors servants, that by drawing one Cord it was taken all away; & so Ottocar presented on his knees doing homage in the view of three Armies.