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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
VII.1 Customary commission of sin begets an Habit in sinning; whereby the love of sin is more deeply radicated in the heart. Habits are got by frequent repeated acts, and doth add a greater facility to act; and such as are customary sinners will soon be habitual Sinners, by frequent swearing they will have an habit of swearing; by frequent drunkenness they will ⟨p. 30⟩acquire an habit of that sin, and what is habitual especially in evil things, is not easily lost.
VII.1 Customary commission of sin begets an Habit in sinning; whereby the love of sin is more deeply radicated in the heart. Habits are got by frequent repeated acts, and doth adde a greater facility to act; and such as are customary sinners will soon be habitual Sinners, by frequent swearing they will have an habit of swearing; by frequent drunkenness they will ⟨p. 30⟩acquire an habit of that sin, and what is habitual especially in evil things, is not easily lost.
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VIII. 1Then Habitual commission of sin begets contracted Hardness of heart, and fearlessness of all Gods Judgements and threatenings; and contracted hardness added to natural hardness, is a great progress in sinning. *Thy Conscience is seared, thy heart hard as the nether millstone; past feeling. When Pharaoh hardened his heart, his sinning was great,