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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 7
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You are not here urged and pressed to hearken •o the Voices of your Enemies that hate you, or •o the counsel and advice of mere Strangers who •now not your Affairs; but to hearken to your •lves, to be your own Arbitrators and Judges, •o draw up the Award with your own hand. 'Tis •strange and an hard case ind•ed, and scarce to be supposed, that Men should fall out with themselves • such a rate, that they had rather hear the Voice •f their mortal Enemy the Devil, and listen to his Advice and Counsel, than to the Voice of their •wn Reason and Conscience.
You are not here urged and pressed to hearken •o the Voices of your Enemies that hate you, or •o the counsel and advice of meer Strangers who •now not your Affairs; but to hearken to your •lves, to be your own Arbitrators and Judges, •o draw up the Award with your own hand. 'Tis •strange and an hard case ind•ed, and scarce to be •upposed, that Men should fall out with themselves • such a rate, that they had rather hear the Voice •f their mortal Enemy the Devil, and listen to his Advice and Counsel, than to the Voice of their •wn Reason and Conscience.