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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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I have lived in the profane neglect of Prayer, Meditation, Self-reflection, and all other spiritual Christian Duties, thinking to make an atonement for all, by a few hypocritical external Formalities.
I have lived in the prophane neglect of Prayer, Meditation, Self-reflection, and all other spiritual Christian Duties, thinking to make an atonement for all, by a few hypocritical external Formalities.
To accommodate my carnal interest in the world, I have come •eeking hot out of an Ale-House, or Whore-House, to the Table of the Lord, where with unhallowed hands, and a more unhallowed heart, I have crucified again the Lord of Glory; and given the vilest affront and despite to that most sacred and precious blood, which now must save me, or I am lost for ever. Thus have I done; and because thou keptest silent, I thought thee to be altogether such an one as my self. But this day hast thou reproved me, and set mine abominations in order before me.
To accommodate my carnal interest in the world, I have come •eeking hot out of an Ale-House, or Whore-House, to the Table of the Lord, where with unhallowed hands, and a more unhallowed heart, I have crucified again the Lord of Glory; and given the vilest affront and despight to that most sacred and precious blood, which now must save me, or I am lost for ever. Thus have I done; and because thou kepst silent, I thought thee to be altogether such an one as my self. But this day hast thou reproved me, and set mine abominations in order before me.
I have tempted and induced many others into the same Impieties with me, of whom some are already gone down to the dead; and others so fixed, and fully engaged in the pursuit of their Lusts, that there appear no signs of repentance or recovery in them.