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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 8
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Come we next to your third Excuse or Plea; That Swearing is become modish, and gives you a Reputation among men of your own Rank and Quality, and that you shall be looked upon as sneaking •ellows, unfit for the Society of Gentlemen, if you did not discourse with them in their own Dialect.
Come we next to your third Excuse or Plea; That Swearing is become ••odish, and gives you a Reputation among men of your own Rank and Quality, and that you shall be looked upon as sneaking •ellows, unfit for the Society of Gentl•men, if you did not discourse with them in their own Dialect.
This Apology for Sin is of no late date: Salvian mentions it as far back as his own Time; profane persons then* thus pleaded for themselves, That they were compelled to be evil, lest they should he accounted vile.
This Apology for Sin is of no late date: Salvian mentions it as far back as his own Time; prophane persons then* thus pleaded for themselves, That they were compelled to be evil, lest they should he accounted vile.
- *Mali esse cog•ntur, ne viles h•beantur.