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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
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Let Parents and Masters, mightily inculcate upon their Young Folks, the Things that are pressed in the Public Ministry of the ⟨p. 51⟩Word. Perhaps, to Repeat the Public Sermons, in the way of Dialogue, and Conference, with your Young Folks, would Win them to a very great Attention. Having your Children and Servants about […], thus go over the main Heads of the Public Sermons. Is not such, or such a thing, a wrath of God? And, Must we not Believe such, & such a Truth? And, Has not the Word of God said so, and so […] Add then; Must not you then be careful that & so to order your Conversation? Do you desire the Help of the Grace of God, that you may do thus & so? Well: Be sure, you Remember this. Christians, who can tell, but the Sanctifying Spirit of God, may marvellously fall down upon the Souls of your Young folks, while you are in this Winning way treating of them!
Let Parents and Masters, mightily inculcate upon their Young Folks, the Things that are pressed in the Public Ministry of the ⟨p. 51⟩Word. Perhaps, to Repeat the Publick Sermons, in the way of Dialogue, and Conference, with your Young Folks, would Win them to a very great Attention. Having your Children and Servants about 〈…〉, thus go over the main Heads of the Publick Sermons. Is not such, or such a thing, a •rath of God? And, Must we not Believe such, & such a Truth? And, Has not the Word of God said so, and so 〈…〉 Add then; Must not you then be careful that & so to order your Conversation? Do you desire the Help of the Grace of God, that you may do thus & so? Well: Be sure, you Remember this. Christians, who can tell, but the Sanctifying Spirit of God, may marvellously fall down upon the Souls of your Young folks, while you are in this Winning way treating of them!
And how many other ways, may those that have the Tuition of Scholars, invent for the instilling and infusing of Good Principles into their Scholars, and Winning of their Young Souls over to a sense of Religion! I have somewhere met with this passage among the customs of a certain Tutor; That in every Recitation ordinarily, he would from something or other occurring in it, make an occasion, to let fall some Sentence which