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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 5 › Section 3
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2. Your Honour is secured by keeping within God's Bounds and Limits. Marriage is honourable in all. Here Guilt can neither wrong your Consciences, nor Infamy your Reputations. fornicators and Adulterers go up and down the world, as men burnt in the Hand: Their Conscience lashes them within, and men point at them abroad. They are a terror to themselves, and a scorn to men.
2. Your Honour is secured by keeping within God's Bounds and Limits. Marriage is honourable in all. Here Guilt can neither wrong your Consciences, nor Infamy your Reputations. •ornicators and Adulterers go up and down the world, as men burnt in the Hand: Their Conscience lashes them within, and men point at them abroad. They are a terror to themselves, and a scorn to men.
3. The Health of the Body is secured by chaste and regular Enjoyments; but exposed to destruction the other way. God hath plagued the Inordinacy of mens Lusts with most strange and horrid Diseases. That Morbus Gallicus, Sudor Anglicus, and Plica Polonica were Judgments sent immediately by God's own hand, as the Witnesses of his high displeasure, against the bold and daring contemners of his sacred and awful Command. Thus as Prov. 5. 11. They mourn at last, when their flesh and body are consumed. Other sins are committed in the Body, but this against it, as well as in it.
3. The Health of the Body is secured by chast and regular Enjoyments; but exposed to destruction the other way. God hath plagued the Inordinacy of mens Lusts with most strange and horrid Diseases. That Morbus Gallicus, Sudor Anglicus, and Plica Polonica were Judgments sent immediately by God's own hand, as the Witnesses of his high displeasure, against the bold and daring contemners of his sacred and awful Command. Thus as Prov. 5. 11. They mourn at last, when their flesh and body are consumed. Other sins are committed in the Body, but this against it, as well as in it.