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Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…
Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolittle.Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.
London: printed by R.I. for J. Johnson, 1666
DIRECTIONS how to live after a wasting PLAGUE. › Part 2 › Section 6
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II. 1Then there is some Temptation, solicitation, suited to this corrupt Principle, either by the Devil or wicked men: or some Object presented to a man that might stir up and excite ⟨p. 26⟩this internal principle of Corruption in our hearts, and though all men have the seeds of all sin, yet Satan observing mens different constitutions hath different baits, (as men have several baits, for several fish) some he soliciteth to drunkenness, others to uncleanness, and others to covetousness: Where note, that Satan hath a wonderful advantage of us, which he had not in our first Parents before the first sin; for there was nothing in their hearts that was corrupt, and yet how did the Devils temptation together with the Object set before their eyes, prevail over them! What the warm Sun is to the stiff and frozen Serpent, it doth enliven it, and then it sendeth forth its venom, and useth its sting; that a Temptation, or an Object, proposed is, to our corrupt Natures. Some call this Abstraction, a drawing the mind off from good to evil.
II. 1Then there is some Temptation, solicitation, suited to this corrupt Principle, either by the Devil or wicked men: or some Object presented to a man that might stirre up and excite ⟨p. 26⟩this internal principle of Corruption in our hearts, and though all men have the seeds of all sin, yet Satan observing mens different constitutions hath different baits, (as men have several baits, for several fish) some he soliciteth to drunkenness, others to uncleanness, and others to covetousness: Where note, that Satan hath a wonderful advantage of us, which he had not in our first Parents before the first sin; for there was nothing in their hearts that was corrupt, and yet how did the Devils temptation together with the Object set before their eyes, prevail over them! What the warm Sun is to the stiff and frozen Serpent, it doth enliven it, and then it sendeth forth its venom, and useth its sting; that a Temptation, or an Object, proposed is, to our corrupt Natures. Some call this Abstraction, a drawing the minde off from good to evil.