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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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The time will come when a mans own heart will be found to have the chief hand •n his ruin; and what Apollodorus did but fancy his heart said to him, some mens hearts will tell them in earnest when they come to •he place of misery and torment; [Greek or Hebrew] ⟨p. 20⟩[Greek or Hebrew]. I have been the cause of all this••• I have betrayed thee into all these torment• It was my laziness, my credulity, my ave••• seness to the ways of strict godliness, mortification, and self denial have for ever undone thee. When thou satest under the convincing truths of the Gospel; It was I that whispere• those Atheistical surmises into thine ear, per•• swading thee all thou heardst was but th• intemperate heat of an hot brained zealot when the Judgements of God were denounced, and the misery thou now feelest fore• warned and threatened, it was I that whispered what the tongue of another once spake out, Tunc credam, cùm illuc venero. I wil• believe it when I come •hither.
The time will come when a mans own •eart will be found to have the chief hand •n his ruine; and what Apollodorus did but •ancy his heart said to him, some mens hearts will tell them in earnest when they come to •he place of misery and torment; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ⟨p. 20⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉. I have been the cause of all this••• I have betrayed thee into all these torment It was my laziness, my credulity, my ave seness to the ways of strict godliness, mortification, and self denyal have for ever undon thee. When thou satest under the convincin truths of the Gospel; It was I that whispere those Atheistical surmises into thine ear, per swading thee all thou heardst was but th intemperate heat of an hot brained zealo when the Judgements of God were denounced, and the misery thou now feelest fore warned and threatned, it was I that whispered what the tongue of another onc spake out, Tunc credam, cùm illuc venero. I wil believe it when I come hither.