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The nets of salvation. A brief essay, upon the glorious designs & methods of…
The nets of salvation. A brief essay, upon the glorious designs & methods of winning. The minds of men unto serious religion, : [Four lines of quotations]
printed by Timothy Green, 1704
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Another Thing whereto we would Won our Souls, […], The Consent of your Souls […] […] of Great, and unto all the […] proposals of it. O […], your Souls […] Love: There is proposed unto us all, […] of first More is for […]. By the Consent of our Souls thereunto, we are brought […] the Covenant, […] have a […] to all […] ⟨p. 26⟩If a man may, have the Infini•• GOD for […] and the Lord JESUS CHRIST for a Prophet, and his […], and his King; and the very Great of […] Promises of the […] Covenants for his Portion; All This, […] This, only upon an Heart, Consent, for […] have these things, Oh! would it not be […] Wisdom to give his Consent? I say then; […], O all ye People, […] one of you! Be […] thus Wise and you are wise man Salvation. […] the winning of the Soul, for it once to be made a willing Soul. The People are […], when one they become, Psal. 110. 3. 4 willing people Soul, Can there, be no winning of thee? Oh Be willing to have God the Father for thy Father, Be willing to have God, the Son for the Saviour; Be willing to have God the […] for thy Leader: And, be willing to have the Kingdom of God for thy Inheritance; and the word of God for thy Rule to come a• […] Certainly, This would be thy Wisdom; For if thou art but willing to it, it shall be so believe, the Angels of God stand looking upon us, with an Astonishment. There […] unto us all and even unto the […] and wretched Sinner among us all […] a Tender as […] The Great GOD, is willing to be thy God, and the Christ of God is willing ⟨p. 27⟩thy Righteousness & thy Salvation, if the• it Accept of Him. Would it not be our wisdom, with a Conquered Soul, full of […] to declare immediately Lord, I Accept and I Accept! Lord, Help me to Accept! […] of us have not so much Wisdom as this comes to, I am sure, You are Astonished at this, […] Heaven, and ye are horribly Afraid, because you see we are so Besotted, and shall be […] Desolate […] Briefly, To sum up all; We would W•n our Souls to the whole Exercise of all God•ess; to the Practice of Serious Religion; to every thing that is Holy, and Just, and Good, […]! That you would be won to a free. […] of your selves […] the Service of God, and a firm Resolution to serve Him, […] the ways of Holiness & Righteousness […] Him all the days of your lives. I can […] unto you, That it would be your wisdom to become Seriously Religious.