A39678:253
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 4 › Section 5
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. V.
Now let us hear what the Soul of the Drunkard hath to plead in its own Excuse and Defence for all his wrongs against God, mischiefs to it self, ⟨p. 66⟩ruin to his Health, Name, and Estate. They have various Excuses, tho not one sound or rational one among them all. Such as they are, let them be tried by the Rule of Reason, if any Reason by yet left in them, who daily dethrone it by this worse-than brutish Practice.
Now let us hear what the Soul of the Drunkard hath to plead in its own Excuse and Defence for all his wrongs against God, mischiefs to it self, ⟨p. 66⟩ruin to his Health, Name, and Estate. They have various Excuses, tho not one sound or rational one among them all. Such as they are, let them be tried by the Rule of Reason, if any Reason by yet left in them, who daily dethrone it by this worse-than bruitish Practice.
That which they have to say for themselves▪ is this,