This is the case of the miserable world; but they have not hearts to […] themselves, nor can we make them willing to be delivered▪ •use we cannot make them know their case. If a man fall in […] pit, we need not spend all the day to persuade him that he is there, and to be willing to be helped out of it: But with these fleshly••iserable souls, the time that should be spent by themselves and us for their recovery, must be spent to make them believe that they are lost; and when all is done, we leave them lost, and have lost our labour, because we cannot prevail with them to believe it. Drown they will and perish everlastingly, because the time that should be spent in saving them, must be spent in making them know that they are sinking, and after all they will not believe it; and therefore will not •ay hold on the hand that is stretched forth to pull them out. The Narrative of the savage people of Soldania doth notably represent their state: Those people live naked, and feed upon the carrion-like carcasses of beasts, and hang the stinking guts about their •ecks for ornament•, and wear hats made of the dung, and carve their skins, and will not change these loathsome customs: Some of them being drawn into our Ships, were carried away for England: when they came to Landon, and saw our stately buildings, and clothing, ⟨p. 48⟩and provisions, they were observed to sigh much, which was thought to have been in compassion of their miserable Country, which so much differed from ours: When they had stayed long among us, and got so much acquaintance with our civility, and order, and all that belongs to the life of man, as that they were thought fit to communicate it to their Country-men, the next Voyage they were brought back, and set on shore in their own Country, to draw some of the rest to come into the Ships, and see and enjoy what they had done (who had purposely been used as might most content them): But as soon as they were landed, they leapt for joy, and cried, Soldania, and cast away their clothes, and came again in the sight of our Ships, with dung on their heads, and guts hanging about their necks, triumphing in their sordid nakedness. Just so do worldly sensual men, in the matters of salvation:
This is the case of the miserable world; but they have not hearts to 〈…〉 themselves, nor can we make them willing to be delivered▪ •use we cannot make them know their case. If a man fall in 〈…〉 pit, we need not spend all the day to perswade him that he is there, and to be willing to be helpt out of it: But with these fleshly••iserable souls, the time that should be spent by themselves and us for their recovery, must be spent to make them believe that they are lost; and when all is done, we leave them lost, and have lost our labour, because we cannot prevail with them to believe it. Drown they will and perish everlastingly, because the time that should be spent in saving them, must be spent in making them know that they are sinking, and after all they will not believe it; and therefore will not •ay hold on the hand that is stretched forth to pull them out. The Narrative of the savage people of Soldania doth notably represent their state: Those people live naked, and feed upon the carrion-like carkasses of beasts, and hang the stinking guts about their •ecks for ornament•, and wear hats made of the dung, and carve their skins, and will not change these loathsom customs: Some of them being drawn into our Ships, were carried away for England: when they came to Landon, and saw our stately buildings, and cloathing, ⟨p. 48⟩and provisions, they were observed to sigh much, which was thought to have been in compassion of their miserable Countrey, which so much differed from ours: When they had stayed long among us, and got so much acquaintance with our civility, and order, and all that belongs to the life of man, as that they were thought fit to communicate it to their Countrey-men, the next Voyage they were brought back, and set on shoare in their own Countrey, to draw some of the rest to come into the Ships, and see and enjoy what they had done (who had purposely been used as might most content them): But as soon as they were landed, they lept for joy, and cryed, Soldania, and cast away their cloathes, and came again in the sight of our Ships, with dung on their heads, and guts hanging about their necks, triumphing in their sordid nakedness. Just so do worldly sensual men, in the matters of salvation:
