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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
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Conviction supposed, and Grace admired.
Reason and Conscience have been shaming men out of their Profaneness, in the former Part of this Discourse. Free-grace invites them to the Life of Holiness, and thereby to the Life of Blessedness in this Second Part.
REason and Conscience have been shaming men out of their Prophaneness, in the former Part of this Discourse. Free-grace invites them to the Life of Holiness, and thereby to the Life of Blessedness in this Second Part.
There you see what it is to live like Beasts. Here you may see what it is to live like Christians.
My Charity commands me to suppose, that some Readers stand by this time convicted in their own Consciences, both of the extreme wickedness, and the immediate danger of that profane Course they have hitherto pursued, and persisted in. And that by this time they begin to interrogate them in the Apostle's close and cutting Language, Rom. 6. 21. What fruit had ye then in