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

We must prosecute this matter with our Hearers. There are those who would […] Win your Souls; God knows, There are so When Moses would win his People to the which is Good, he so urged it upon them Deut. 4. 6. This is your wisdom. Truly, this is what we would urge upon our Hearers that they may be won unto Religion; O […] People, It will be your wisdom, if the Winners […] Souls, may prevail upon your Souls. For,

We must prosecute this matter with our Hearers. There are those who would 〈…〉 Win your Souls; God knows, There are so When Moses would win his People to the which is Good, he so urged it upon them Deut. 4. 6. This is your wisdom. Truly, this is what we would urge upon our Hearers that they may be wun unto Religion; O 〈…〉 People, It will be your wisdom, if the Winners 〈…〉 Souls, may prevail upon your Souls. For,

First; The Things from which you should be Won, are such, as it cannot but be your wisdom to be Won from them. To Repentance is, to grow wise again. An ungodly man always playing the Fool. To be won from the ways of Sin, is to be won from what we make work for Repentance. If there be wisdom in Repentance, there is no wisdom […] ⟨p. 23⟩those things that will Damn a man without Repentance. The Things are those, whereof […] are so Expostulated withal; Rom. 6. 21. That Fruit had you of those things, whereof ye […] now Ashamed? For the End of those things […] Death. If any of you are still going on in the Courses of Ungodliness. Oh, be Won, & […] Weaned from those […]; For the wrath […] God comes upon the Children of Disobedience, or such things; and it cannot be any mans wisdom to Expose himself unto that wrath. […] it be your wisdom to Forget God! When God says, They that Forget God shall be turned […] Hell. Can it be your wisdom, to walk […] the Flesh? When God says, If ye walk […] the Flesh, ye shall Dy. Can it be your wisdom, to mind Earthly things? When you […] told by God, That a dreadful Destruction all be the End of them that mind Earthly things. Oh! That your Souls might be won […] the Sins, by which you wrong your own Souls. Why, why will you love Death? Tis Madness, with which you go to the Dead.