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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 that some men had less trouble! and ••that some had more! If the foolish Virgins ••d been less confident, they had certainly •en more safe, Matth. 25. If those glorious •ofessors in Matth. 7. 22. had not shut their •••es against their own hypocrisy, Christ had •t shut against them the door of Salvation ••d Glory. Ananias and Sapphira; Hymeneus, ••d Philetus; Alexander and Demas: with •••ltitudes more of that sort, are the sad in••nces and proofs of this point. It is said, •v. 30. 12. There is a generation that is pure their own eyes, and yet is not washed from •ir filthiness. Through what false Spectacles ••the Men of that Generation look upon ••eir own Souls? The Men of that Genera•••n are multiplied in this Generation: ne• was any age over-run with a generation •vain, Self-cozening, formal Professors, as •s Generation is.
O that some men had less trouble! and ••that some had more! If the foolish Virgins ••d been less confident, they had certainly •en more safe, Matth. 25. If those glorious •ofessors in