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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
THE REASONABLENESS OF Personal Reformation, › Chapter 1 › Section 6
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SECT. VI.
When things therefore are brought to such […] exigence, that ruin or reformation is the on• Choice men have to make, and all religious in pressions so obliterated and worn out, that me• pay no reverence to them; an Appeal to the Reason of men seems then to be an hopeful method […] prevailing with them, to suffer a reformation […] ••ther than a ruin. Not that I imagine the Topics […] Reason able to afford more powerful Argument than those of Religion do; but that they who […] their ignorance, and strong prejudices against Religion, have made themselves more uncapab• of conviction that way, may haply feel the for•• of Reason prevailing so far, at least, as to […] their outrageous lusts under some restraint.
When things therefore are brought to such 〈…〉 exigence, that ruin or reformation is the on• Choice men have to make, and all religious in pressions so obliterated and worn out, that me• pay no reverence to them; an Appeal to the Reaso• of men seems then to be an hopeful method 〈…〉 prevailing with them, to suffer a reformation 〈…〉 ••ther than a ruin. Not that I imagine the Topicks 〈…〉 Reason able to afford more powerful Argumen• than those of Religion do; but that they who their ignorance, and strong prejudices against Rligion, have made themselves more uncapab of conviction that way, may haply feel the for of Reason prevailing so far, at least, as to their outragious lusts under some restraint.