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

Well; I will put the Demonstration then beyond all Contradiction. There is not one of us all, but what will within a very little while come to the Acknowledgement of it. That Serious Religion is the greatest, the truest, the only Wisdom. It would be a Real wisdom in every man, to Live under the power of such Apprehensions, as he will have, when he becomes to Dy. Men generally Entertain •iser Apprehensions of things, when they are under the awful Apprehensions of being fetched away by Death, to appear before God the Judge ⟨p. 30⟩of all, and give an Account how they have Lived, than they had while they lived […] Health and Ease and a Thousand […]. Now, When, when did you ever […] Dying man, but what Confessed his Apprehensions, That it would have been his wisdom, to have lived Religiously? One of the most Renowned Scholars and States-men upon the ••ace of the Earth, Namely, Grotius; when he drew near his Death, he professed, That he would gladly now give all his Learning, and all his Honour, for the Religion of a poor […] in his Neighbourhood; an honest man, that lived […], but very Religiously. And when some asked him, Sir, Will you please to Oblige us now, with be ••st Couns•• that we may Expect from a Person of your Great […] and Experiences? His only Answer was, be Serious, Be Serious. And a Person little, if an all, inferior to him, Namely, the admirable Selden, when he was in his last Sickness declared, The Five […] Verses, in the Second Chapter to Tirus, are now of more value […] me th•n all my Library. Oh, Our Beloved People; Why will you not be won to that Religion, of which you will very shortly wish, […] that I had been so wise as to be won unto […]

Well; I will put the Demonstration then beyond all Contradiction. There is not one of us all, but what will within a very little while come to the Acknowledgment of it. That Serious Religion is the greatest, the truest, the only Wisdom. It would be a Real wisdom in every man, to Live under the power of such Apprehensions, as he will have, when he becomes to Dy. Men generally Entertain •iser Apprehensions of things, when they are under the awful Apprehensions of being fetch'd away by Death, to appear before God the Judge