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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.
If this be the happy effect (as I hope it is) of all the former close and solemn Debates with your Consciences, it will naturally and immediately cast thy Soul, Reader, into great admiration of, an astonishment at the patience and long-suffering of God, that hath born with thee, under a life of prodigious and reiterated provocations until this day. And his Goodness will be as admirable to thee, as his Patience; in that he hath not only suffered thee to live till this day, but made it the day of thy Conviction, the first necessary step towards thy Conversion: and the very first things he entertains thy convinced and troubled Soul with, to be the possibility and probability of thy Conversion to God.
The greatness of his Patience shows his Almighty Power, Rom. 9. 22. Nahum 1. 3. But his willingness to pass by all the wrongs you have done him, and to be at peace with you, discovers the immense riches of his grace, Tit. 3. 3, 4.
The greatness of his Patience shews his Almighty Power, Rom. 9. 22. Nahum 1. 3. But his willingness to pass by all the wrongs you have done him, and to be at peace with you, discovers the immense riches of his grace, Tit. 3. 3, 4.
That God should be so quick in the executions of his wrath upon your Companions in sin, and so patient and long-suffering towards you, that