A39695:9
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 EPISTLE TO THE READER.
READER,
AMONG the difficulties and severities of true Religion, the faithful searching, and diligent keeping of our heart• are found in the first and highest rank of difficulties; these two take up the main work of•• Christian betwixt them, hic labor hoc opu••est. I had hopes that these Essays for the searching of the heart, might much sooner have followed my former* for keeping the heart: but providence hath reserved it for the fittest season.
AMONG the difficulties and severities of true Religion, the faithful searching, and diligent keeping of our heart• are found in the first and highest rank of difficulties; these two take up the main work of•• Christian betwixt them, hic labor hoc opu••est. I had hopes that these Essaies for the searching of the heart, might much sooner have followed my former*