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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39367	Reflections upon several passages in a book entitled, The reasonableness of a personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion with a letter to Mr. John Galpine, concerning his printed encomium of J.F.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.; Galpine, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing E688; ESTC R41123	6,865	24

REFLECTIONS Upon Several Passages in a Book ENTITLED The Reasonableness of a Personal Reformation And The Necessity of Conversion With a LETTER to Mr. JOHN GALPINE Concerning his Printed Encomium of I. F. The Speech of Dead Men commonly proves more Effectual more Profitable or more Dangerous then that of the Living Dr. HAKEWIL in the Epistle Dedicatory of his Answer to Dr. Carier Printed in the Year 1692. TO THE READER THO' I had much rather this Paper had been Publisht whilst that Person whose Wicked Errors it Refutes was Living yet since it can be Testified by divers Honest men that it was written whilst He was Living And since it is to Me so Evident that the Book I mention tho it carries such a shew of Godliness is full of Deadly Poyson to the Souls of Men I think it my Duty to Give out to the World an Antidote Against it I earnestly beseech the Reader to Consider that it cannot be long before He and I shall Appear before the Iudgment-Seat of CHRIST to give Account of our Censures of all that we Hear or Read REFLECTIONS c. THE Reasonableness of Personal Reformation c. P. 4. We little know how far Unsanctified Reason may be prevail'd upon to quit its Throne and resign its Scepter into the hands of Lust and Appetite I. F. Unsanctified Reason is Always Subject to some Lust or Inordinate Appetite P. 5. Appeals to Reason may produce Reformation in some men sooner than Appeals to the Scriptures or Principles of Faith I. F. This is Contrary to the Common Sense of All True Christians and the Express word of JESUS CHRIST who says Without Me Ye Can Do nothing And by the Mouth of his Holy Apostle Without Faith it is Impossible to Please God And certainly it is the same thing to produce Reformation in any man and to Perswade him Effectually to do those things which are Pleasing unto GOD which cannot be Done Without Faith P. 9. It Reason stands ready to offer its service to thee to Save thee from or to receive thee out of those Mischiefs thou hast or mayst run thy self into if thou will but hear and obey its advice I. F. 'T is evident He speaks of Reason in Contradistinction to Religion for thus He begins this Section The Persons whose Reformation I particularly design by this method being men that exercise more Reason than Religion I. F. Now it can be no other than a most Detestable Heresy to Assert that Reason any farther then as it is Regulated by the Principles of Faith can ever Save a man from those Mischiefs which he would run himself into P. 20. Notwithstanding the present Captivity of Reason under usurping and domineering Lusts so long as it hath a permanent and fixed Root and Principle in their Nature 't is possible it may recover its Throne and Empire over them again I. F. Unsanctified Reason may turn its Subjection from one Lust to another but can never have a True Victory over any one Lust but by Subjecting it self to the Principles of Faith that is to say by ceasing to be Vnsanctified and Partaking of the True Light which is the Power of God unto Salvation P. 21. Reason would only regulate and legitimate your Delights and Religion Sanctify them I. F. 'T is very Injurious to the Souls of men Professing Christianity to possess them with a conceit that they may Lawfully or According to the Will of God Act by Two Distinct Principles under the Notion of Reason and Religion For Christianity Obliges All men Whatsoever they Do in Word or Deed to Do All to the Glory of God which is the Principal Points of Right Reason P. 99. What is the matter when all is sifted and examin'd why the matter is this some will be more serious strict and conscientious than others think fit or necessary for them to be I. F. This is a most Devilish False Insinuation And we the True Sons of the Church of England APPEAL to Our Blessed LORD the True Head of the Holy Catholick Church to Judge between Us and this most Impudent Schismatick and his Companions We Aver Before God Angels and Men that their Schism has been the Cause of many Abominations particularly That it has been an Encouragement to the Anti-Trinitarians to Publish their BLASPHEMIES What BLASPHEMIES their Neglect of the LORDS PRAYER has Occasion'd is also Manifest to the World P. 130. Such as you are whose whole Lives have been polluted with Profaness and All Impiety You cannot think as others do that you need no Repentance or Reformation In this respect therefore you lie nearer to the Door of Hope and Mercy than other Sinners do I. F. By other Sinners he must needs mean those that have not been so Great Sinners And whether the Greater or Lesser Sinners that is to say whether those that are More or those that are Less Averse from True Godliness are Nearest to the Kingdome of God let any man Judge who is neither Brutishly Stupid nor Diabolically Impudent P. 139. This is the change I am here pressing him to P. 140. It is not in any Man's power to convert himself Yet he Can Do and Forbear to Do many things the Doing or Forbearing of which has a true tho remote tendency to his Conversion and not Doing or Forbearing of them his Destruction is of himself I. F. His Destruction is not of himself Because he Forbears to Act or Do any thing in his own Natural Power or Without the Divine Assistance but Because he Rejects the Divine Assistance which by the Father of Mercies is Graciously Offer'd unto him 'T is Evident by J. F's saying This is the change I am pressing him to Compar'd with these words He Can do or Forbear to do many things c. That he Encourages men to Act towards their Salvation in Their own Natural Strength Whereas Our Preaching is this That we Can do Nothing but Sin Without the Help of JESUS CHRIST but 't is Always Possible for those that Trust in him to Abstain by his Assistance from All Known Sin Now whether this Way of Preaching or I. F's Way be the True Preaching of the Gospel I leave to the Judgment of Any man of Common Honesty that has Read the Holy Scriptures P. 140. Nor do I know any reason why you cannot compose your selves when engaged in God's Publick or Private Worship to a close and serious attendance to those Duties I. F. Indeed he might have said I know no reason why Any man when he makes Confession of the Christian Faith and says the Lords Prayer should not Do it Sincerely which if he Do he is Converted But to Suppose as 't is Evident he does that the Persons to whom he speaks continue Vnconverted and yet to say to them Nor do I know any reason why you Cannot c. is Intolerable Ignorance in one that Pretends to be a Minister of the Gospel For the Reason which he says he Knows not is as