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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.
IV. Consideration.
Do you think your hearts would be in such a dead, careless and unconcerned frame, al•o at this ⟨p. 148⟩great and awful matter of your Conversion and Salvation, if those things were now before your eyes, which certainly and shortly must be before them?
Do you think your hearts would be in such a dead, careless and unconcerned •rame, al•o at this ⟨p. 148⟩great and awful matter of your Conversion and Salvation, if those things were now before your eyes, which certainly and shortly must be before them?
How rational and necessary is it for you now to suppose those very things, as present before you, which you know to be near you, and a few Days or Hours will make present? Here let me make a few Suppositions, so rational, because certainly future and near, that no wise man will or dare to slight them as Fictions or Chimaera's.