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The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion
The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion; the true methods of making all men happy in this world, and in the world to come Seasonably discoursed, and earnestly pressed upon this licentious age. By J.F. a sincere lover of his native country, and the souls of men.The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion; the true methods of making all men happy in this world, and in the world to come Seasonably discoursed, and earnestly pressed upon this licentious age. By J.F. a sincere lover of his native countrey, and the souls of men.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1691
THE REASONABLENESS OF Personal Reformation, › Chapter 2 › Section 5
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SECT. V.
The Wisdom and Goodness of God are clearly discernible in leaving such Principles of Reason and common notices of Conscience in Men aft•• the fall, as prompt them naturally unto Justice Chastity, Temperance, and Sobriety, and do struggle within them to restrain them from, or recover them out of their Immoralities, from which man• advantages do result.
The Wisdom and Goodness of God are clearl• discernable in leaving such Principles of Reaso• and common notices of Conscience in Men aft•• the fall, as prompt them naturally unto Justic• Chastity, Temperance, and Sobriety, and do strug•gle within them to restrain them from, or recove• them out of their Immoralities, from which man• advantages do result.
For hereby God is acknowledged all the World over, Men every where showing by these things the work of the Law written in their hearts, Rom. 2. 15.
For hereby God is acknowledged all the World over, Men every where shewing by these things the work of the Law written in their hearts, Rom. 2. 15