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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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I am persuaded, Gentlemen, you do not, you cannot think so. You know you must appea• before that God, with whom there is no respect of persons: a God that will certainly damn the impenitent Blasphemer. The man must assuredly ⟨p. 51⟩go to Hell, 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. and if the man be damned, certainly the Gentleman is in a bad Case.
I am perswaded, Gentlemen, you do not, you cannot think so. You know you must appea• before that God, with whom there is no respect of persons: a God that will certainly damn the impenitent Blasphemer. The man must assuredly ⟨p. 51⟩go to Hell, 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. and if the man be damned, certainly the Gentleman is in a bad Case.
6. In a word, I am past all doubt, and so may you too, that this genteel mode of Swearing, Drinking and Whoring, which hath spread so far in the present infamous Age, into Protestant States and Kingdoms, is the very Spirit and strength of a Popish Plot, Subtly projected, and industriously managed for their effectual reduction to Popery.
6. In a word, I am past all doubt, and so may you too, that this genteel mode of Swearing, Drinking and Whoreing, which hath spread so far in the present infamous Age, into Protestant States and Kingdoms, is the very Spirit and strength of a Popish Plot, Subtilly projected, and industriously managed for their effectual reduction to Popery.