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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.
THAT it is possible for the greatest and most infamous Sinner to be recovered by Repentance and Conversion, and thereupon to find mercy and forgiveness with God, is a truth as sure and firm, as it is sweet and comfortable. Three things will give full evidence of it.
1. That their Sins do not exceed the power and sufficiency of the causes of Remission.
2. That such Sinners are within the calls and invitations of the Gospel.
3. That such Sinners are found among the instances and Examples of pardoning mercy, recorded in the Scriptures.
And if the Causes of Pardon be sufficient, and able to produce it; if the Gospel-invitations do take them in; and such sinners as these, every way as vile and wicked, have not been shut out, but ⟨p. 126⟩