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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 3
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And if we seriously enquire into […] grounds and causes of this self dec•• among professors, we shall find these […] ⟨p. 19⟩conspiring to delude and cheat them, […] the great concern of their salvation.
ANd if we seriously enquire into 〈…〉 grounds and causes of this self dec•• among professors, we shall find these 〈…〉 ⟨p. 19⟩conspiring to delude and cheat them, 〈…〉 the great concern of their salvation.
1. First, The natural deceitfulness of the heart, than which nothing is more treach•ous, and false, Jer. 17. 9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately •icked [Greek or Hebrew] Supplanta••vum cor prae omnibus, 1the heart is •e greatest supplanter, the most crafty and •btil cheat of all, it deceives us as Jacob •d his brother, (to whose name this text •ludes.) It defeats us of our heavenly heritage, as Jacob supplanted him in his earthly •ne; while we are gone a hunting after earthly trifles. And wherein its deceitfulness principally appears, you may see by the somn Caveat of the Apostle