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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
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.
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 ⟨p. 122⟩those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 'Tis hard to imagine, that so many close Debates and Reasonings as you have heard in the former Part, should not leave many of you under conviction and trouble of Spirit. You see your own Reasons and Consciences have condemned you; And if our heart condemn us (saith the Apostle) God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things, 1 John 3. 20. 'Tis folly to imagine, you shall be acquitted at God's immediate Bar, who are already cast and condemned at your own Privy Sessions.