The Sincere Convert

2. Let us look into all places and persons,¹ and see how few shall be saved. The world is now split into four parts, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: and the three ⟨p. 125⟩biggest parts are drowned in a deluge of profaneness and superstition; they do not so much as profess Christ; you may see the sentence of death writ on these mens foreheads, Jer. 10. ult. But let us look upon the best part of the world, and that is Europe, how few shall be saved there. First, The Grecian Church, howsoever now in these days, their good Patriarch of Constantinople is about a general Reformation among them, and hath done much good, yet are they for the present, and have been for the most part of them without the saving means of knowledge. They content themselves with their old superstitions, having little or no Preaching at all. And for the other parts, as Italy, Spain, France, Germany, for the most part they are Popish; and see the end of these men, 2 Thes. 1. 9. And now amongst them that carry the badge of honesty, I will not speak what mine ears have heard, & my heart believes concerning other Churches: I will come into our own Church of England, which is the most flourishing ⟨p. 126⟩Church in the world: never had Church such Preachers, such means, yet have we not some Chapels and Churches stand as dark lanterns without light,² where people are led with blind, or idle, or licentious Ministers,³ and so both fall into the ditch?

2. Let us looke into all places and persons,¹ and see how few shall be saved. The world is now split into foure parts, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: and the three ⟨p. 125⟩