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

[…], There can be no standing before this demonstration; The Laws of the Only wise God, must needs be Rules of the most Exalted wisdom. It cannot but be our wisdom i• Conform our selves unto the Laws of the Only wise God. Oh, Why then will you not become Seriously Religious? Why not be […] ⟨p. 28⟩to abound in the Demotions of Christianity and •atch over […] Hearts and Lives that there may be […] allowed […] them. It was most incontestably Determined. •sal. 111. 10. The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of wisdom, […] have […] who […] things And thence is this thing so strengthen the Demonstrations, You […] have no manner of Objection to make again•• the Piety required of you. You cannot Object, that it is […] Disconsolate thing, to be Seriously Religious […] The ways of wisdom are pleasant ways; No Sensual Pleasures […] comparable to those of Communion with God. It can […] Wisdom to take such pleasant ways. You can't Object, that it is Dishonourable. What? Can it be a Blemish, to become a Child of the Almighty King of Heaven and Earth, or to […] the […] of what Lord whom all the Angels in Heaven adore for evermore? You can't Object, That it is Unprofitable. What? Can you be a loser by that which will bring you to the Unsearchable […] of Christ […] Surely, To gain the Knowledge of God, and the Favour of God, is better than to gain the finest Gold. Oh! why should not our People be Won, unto those things, that will Delight them, Adorn them, ⟨p. 29⟩Enrich them inexpressibly! Is it not a mans wisdom, to do what is for his Interest? Then 'twill be your wisdom to become Seriously Religious! I appeal to the Conscience of every man alive, whether the Greatest Interest of every man in the world, be not his Everlasting Happiness in the world to come. Every man Living will readily grant it: That thing has even put off the Character of a Man, and should be Condemned and Confined unto All Four, who will not readily grant it. Grant this, and the Point is won; For there is no man who can Seriously think, That there is any coming to Everlasting Happiness without being Seriously Religious. But, O man, Thy Heart not yet won unto it!

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