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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 6 › Section 6
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1. That it is not their Piety, but their Hypocrisy which they hate. Not because they have indeed more Piety than others, but because they make more vain Show and Ostentation of it, than themselves do; who, setting aside their ridiculous Grimaces, and affected fantastic Words and Actions, are every whit as good as themselves.
1. That it is not their Piety, but their Hypocrisy which they hate. Not because they have indeed more Piety than others, but because they make more vain Shew and Ostentation of it, than themselves do; who, setting aside their ridiculous Grimaces, and affected phantastick Words and Actions, are every whit as good as themselves.
2. Because under a pretence of greater strictness in Religion, they do but hatch and carry on Sedition and Rebellion; and that the World will never be quiet, whilst such Vipers are suffered in the Bowels of it.
3. That both the former have been made su• •iciently evident and apparent in several former, and more recent Instances of the Hypocrisy and seditious Designs of as high Pretenders to Religion and Reformation, as those are, whom they truly hate, and would not suffer them to live, if their Power were answerable to their Hatred.