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

I remember, that brave Old Man, Father Laty•er, having occasion to Rebuke and Unbraid, the Sloth of some, who by their Profession should have been the Winners of Soul be stung them with a passage of this Purport ⟨p. 35⟩[…] won't Learn of God, and Christ, & Good […], Sirs, then Learn of the Devil! The Devil does all he can for the Winning of […] he goes about seeking whom he may Win, unto his Devouring Jaws. Why do we no more to W•n, and Save Souls, from those Devouring Jaws? This I will say; our Lord sometimes complained, Luk. 16. 8. The Children […] this World are for their Generation Wiser than the Children of Light. With shame truly may we make the Complaint. The Children of a […] Religion, are Wise and Warmer, in their Zeal for the Winning of Souls into their, Paths of Darkness, than we are for the Winning of Souls, to walk in the Light of the Religion of God. The Mahometans out-do us; The Quakers out-do us; The Socinians out-do […]: The Papists make us Ashamed. With what a Zeal do their Missionaries compass Sea […] Land, that they may gain Proselytes, & win the Souls of men over unto the Popish Idolatry? What Hazardous Travels, what Marvellous Fatigues, do their Zealots undergo, that they may Win the Souls of men, only to change the Old Chains of Death for New ones? They will bear the Loathsome and Irksome Wigwams of the Indians in an howling Wilderness, if they may but Win over the Salvages ⟨p. 36⟩to their Superstitions. I blush, I faint, when I read, the vast Pains which those Bigots take for the winning of Souls! No less than Six Hundred Clergy-men, in that one Order of the Jesuits did within a few Years, Embark themselves at several times, for China, that they might Win over that mighty Nation unto their Bastard-Christianity. No less than Five Hundred of them lost their Lives, in the Difficulties of their Enterprise; and yet the Survivors go on with it, Expressing a sort of Trouble, that it […] not unto their share to make a Sacrifice […] their Lives, in Enterprising the Propagation of Religion. I am astonished. I am astonished! No man shall hinder me from spreading out my Hands unto the Lord, and Crying out, with him of old; Ezr. 9. 6