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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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THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 2 › Section 2
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SECT. II.
That there are multi•••s of such selfceivers among Professors, will appea•• 1. First, by this, that there are ev• where to be fou•• […] more professors, t•• Converts. Unregenerate professors, whose ligion is […] the effect of Education. C•••stianity by the favour of an early Provide• was the first comer, it first bespake them it self; these are Christians of an hum• Creation, rather born, than new-born bel•• errs. Now, all these are self-deceived, and h•• ing to damnation, under the efficacy • strong delusion; for if a man think himse•• be something, when he is nothing, he deceive himself, saith the Apostle, Gal. 6. 3. Su• our birth-privilege, without the new bi• is nothing; yea, worse than nothing, as to • last, and great account; that which sta• for a great sum in our Arithmetic, it's thing, it is but a Cypher you see, in God's. ••cept a man be born again, (say the lips of tr•• he cannot see the Kingdom of God,