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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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O Reader, If thy heart were right with •od, and thou dist not cheat thy self with […] vain profession, thou wouldst have frequent •asiness with God, which thou wouldst be •th thy dearest friend, or the wife of thy some should be privy to: Non est religio •i omnia patent. Religion doth not lay all ••en to the eyes of men. Observed duties maintain our credit, but secret duties main•in our life. It was the saying of an Heathen •out his secret correspondency with his fiend, What need the world be a acquainted •ith it? thou and I are Theatre enough to each •her: There are enclosed pleasures in Religion, which none but renewed spiritual souls •o feelingly understand.
O Reader, If thy heart were right with •od, and thou dist not cheat thy self with 〈…〉 vain profession, thou wouldst have frequent •asiness with God, which thou wouldst be •th thy dearest friend, or the wife of thy •some should be privy to: Non est religio •i omnia patent. Religion doth not lay all ••en to the eyes of men. Observed duties •aintain our credit, but secret duties main•in our life. It was the saying of an Heathen •out his secret correspondency with his •iend, What need the world be a acquainted •ith it? thou and I are Theatre enough to each •her: There are enclosed pleasures in Relion, which none but renewed spiritual souls o feelingly understand.