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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 2 › Section 3
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.
'Tis the God of this world that blinds the minds of them that believe not, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4. The God of this world, (so called by a Mimesis) who leads a world of poor deluded wretches to destruction, having first blinded their minds, that is deluded, and with his hellish art practised upon their understanding, that [Greek or Hebrew], leading and directive faculty, which is to the soul what eyes are to the body.
'Tis the God of this world that blinds the minds of them that beleve not, 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4. The God of this world, (so call'd by a Mimesis) who leads a world of poor deluded wretches to destruction, having first blinded their minds, that is deluded, and with his hellish art practised upon their understanding, that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, leading and directive faculty, which is to the soul what eyes are to the body.
I remember Basil brings in Satan thus insulting Christ, I have them, I have them: for all thy blood and miracles, thy wooings and beseechings, thy knockings and strivings, I have cozened thee of them at the very gates of Heaven: for all their illuminations, and tasting of the powers of the World to come; I have shipwrecked them in the very mouth of the haven.
I remember Basil brings in Satan thus insulting Christ, I have them, I have them: for all thy blood and miracles, thy wooings and beseechings, thy knockings and strivings, I have couzened thee of them at the very gates of Heaven: for all their illuminations, and tasting of the powers of the World to come; I have shipwrackt them in the very mouth of the haven.