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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.
II. Supposition.
Suppose your selves now to be at the Judgment-Seat of God, where you know you must be immediately after Death; or that you did behold the Process and awful solemnity of the general Judgment of the great Day, both which appearances are indisputably sure and certain, Heb. 9. 27. 2 Cor. 5. 10. Suppose you saw all Adam's Posterity there assembled and convened, even Multitudes, Multitudes, which no man can number; all these separated into two grand Divisions; Christ the Supreme and final Judge upon the Judgment-Seat, the Christless and Unregenerate World quivering at the Bar, the last Sentence pronouncing on them, the Executioners standing ready to take them away: will you not then (think you) be ready to tear your selves with indignation for this your supine and sottish carelessness? A Voice from the Throne, like the Voice of a Trumpet, sounds a loud Alarm to all Careless, Negligent and Trifling Sinners; and this is the Voice, if you will not be in the same case with the miserable condemned World. Put to it heartily then in the use of all means with God and Men, for converting and regenerating Grace now, which is the only thing that differences your state from those miserable Wretches then.
Suppose your selves now to be at the Judgment-Seat of God, where you know you must be immediately after Death; or that you did behold the Process and awful solemnity of the general Judgment of the great Day, both which appearances are indisputably sure and certain, Heb. 9. 27