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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 3 › Section 5: SECT, V.
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Till public Justice lay hold upon such Offenders, let us try what close reasoning may effect for their Reformation. 'Tis hard to imagine, that men of Sense should so generally and so far engage themselves in this Course of profane swearing, and have nothing at all to say for themselves.
Till publick Justice lay hold upon such Offenders, let us try what close reasoning may effect for their Reformation. 'Tis hard to imagine, that men of Sense should so generally and so far engage themselves in this Course of prophane swearing, and have nothing at all to say for themselves.
If they have no reason at all to offer in justification, or excuse of what they do, they act the brutes, not the men, and are self-condemned already.
If they have no reason at all to offer in justification, or excuse of what they do, they act the bruits, not the men, and are self-condemned already.
'Tis a question with me, whether the Soul of man on this side Hell can sink so far into the nature of a Devil, as to sin because he will sin, or to engage himself in a Course of Sin, without any respect at all to some carnal interest, either of Profit, Pleasure or Honour.