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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 6
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SECT. VI.
These notices and dictates of Reason and […] science in Men being so necessary and many […] beneficial to themselves, as well as to the w••• Community; it must therefore be an horrid •••lany to war against them, and by violence to […] press and enslave them to our own Lust.
These notices and dictates of Reason and 〈…〉 science in Men being so necessary and many 〈…〉 beneficial to themselves, as well as to the w••• Community; it must therefore be an horrid •••lany to war against them, and by violence to 〈…〉 press and enslave them to our own Lust.
This is as if a Company of desperate R••• should assault Innocent and Noble Traveller• on the lawful Road, bind and gag their Gu••• whilst they Rob and Prostitute them. Thus […] brutish Lusts, headed by the Devil, with the •••ctions of Men, travelling along the lawful R of Duty, under the conduct of Reason and science. For this Villainy it was that the stle tells us, The wrath of God was revealed […] Heaven against the Heathens, who held the […] in unrighteousness,