The nets of salvation. A brief essay, upon the glorious designs & methods of…

What man that has any sense of a God, or Soul, can behold a great Assembly of Souls▪ without some ardour of Soul, for the Winning of them? That your Souls, O my Hearers, may be Won, unto the Fear of God, and •he Love of Christ, and unto the Good Things •hat accompany Salvation, you shall hear something of what is to be spoken, of, as well as •or, the Winning of Souls.

What man that has any sense of a God, or Soul, can behold a great Assembly of Souls▪ without some ardour of Soul, for the Winning of them? That your Souls, O my Hearers, may be Wun, unto the Fear of God, and •he Love of Christ, and unto the Good Things •hat accompany Salvation, you shall hear something of what is to be spoken, of, as well as •or, the Winning of Souls.

I am offering to you a Delicate Fruit, gathered from the Tree of Life. Indeed, a Righteous man, is in the Proverb that affords the ⟨image ?⟩Sentence now before us, compared unto the Tree of Life; And this, because of the Blessed Fruit which is to be gathered from such a man; because of the Blessed Life, which is Communicated in and with his Fruit. Plutarch reports, That the Babylonians fetched more than Three Hundred Commodities out of that One Tree, the Palm-tree; for which, it was a Tree highly & justly honoured among them. A Righteous man desires nothing so much, as to be a Fruitful Man. He counts it the greatest Glory imaginable, to Glorify God by bringing Forth […] Fruit. But then, what is it, that •e aims at in bringing forth his Fruit? What; but the Winning of Souls. The Winning of Souls, is now commended unto us, as the Desire and Study of a Just man; and it is with an Intimation, that he will be a Wise man, who will be such a Just man.