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

Would not our Churches gladly see the Rising Generation among us, won over to serve […] God of our Fathers with a perfect Heart & […] Mind? There has been a Proposal made, That Solemn Da•es of Prayer with […], might be Celebrated in our Churches; Even successively in their several Vicinities, •n purpose, to ask for Effusions of the Spirit […] Grace on the Rising Generation. It has been Proposed by our most Aged Pastors; It has been Proposed by Assemblies of our Pastors; it has been Proposed by the whole General Assembly of the Province: The Proposal would, no doubt, be of a vast Consequences for the winning of Souls▪ But, alas, of later Years, in how few Churches hath it ever yet been Practised? O Sleepy Churches; Why? are you so Cruel, and even like the Ostriches […] the Wilderness! Why do you leave your Off-spring in the Earth, and forget that the Foot of […] is there Crushing of them? Why are […] Hardened against your Young Ones, as if they […] yours, and as if you had no Feat of […] in their Sins? Why should it […] said, that God has deprived you of the wisdom ⟨p. 42⟩so requisite unto the winning of their Souls, and not imparted unto you Understanding?

Would not our Churches gladly see the Rising Generation among us, wun over to serve 〈…〉 God of our Fathers with a perfect Heart & 〈…〉 Mind? There has been a Proposal made, That Solemn Da•es of Prayer with 〈…〉, might be Celebrated in our Churches; Even successively in their several Vicinities, •n purpose, to ask for Effusions of the Spirit 〈…〉 Grace on the Rising Generation. It has been Proposed by our most Aged Pastors; It has been Proposed by Assemblies of our Pastors; it has been Proposed by the whole General Assembly of the Province: The Proposal would, no doubt, be of a vast Consequences for the winning of Souls▪ But, alas, of later Years, in how few Churches hath it ever yet been Practised? O Sleepy Churches; Why? are you so Cruel, and even like the Ostriches the Wilderness! Why do you leave your Off-spring in the Earth, and forget that the Foot of is there Crushing of them? Why are Hardened against your Young Ones, as if they yours, and as if you had no Feat of in their Sins? Why should it said, that God has deprived you of the wisdom