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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.
Of the absolute Necessity of a thorough Change.
Of the absolute Necessity of a thorow Change.
Whatever the Difficulties and Hazards be that attend this Change by Conversion unto God, the Change it self is absolutely and indispensably necessary to every man's Salvation. The Door of Salvation can never be opened without the Key of Regeneration. Christ assures Civil and Formal Nicodemus, that except he be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, Joh. 3. 3. Think not Conversion to be the attainment of some singular and extraordinary Christians; for 'tis the very point upon which every man's eternal Happiness or Misery depends. There is one Law for all the world, They must be changed or damned. No Restitutions or Reformations, no common Gifts or Abilities, no Religious Duties or Services, can save any man from Hell without a Change by thorough Conversion, Rom. 8. 8. They that are in the flesh, cannot please God.
WHatever the Difficulties and Hazards be that attend this Change by Conversion unto God, the Change it self is absolutely and indispensibly necessary to every man's Salvation. The Door of Salvation can never be opened without the Key of Regeneration. Christ assures Civil and Formal Nicodemus, that except he be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, Joh. 3. 3. Think not Conversion to be the attainment of some singular and extraordinary Christians; for 'tis the very point upon which every man's eternal Happiness or Misery depends. There is one Law for all the world, They must be changed or damned. No Restitutions or Reformations, no common Gifts or Abilities, no Religious Duties or Services, can save any man from Hell without a Change by thorough Conversion, Rom. 8. 8. They that are in the flesh, cannot please God.