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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 10
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.
SECT. X.
1Secondly, Wicked men will be worse under the dispensations of Gods Ordinances. But here I shall be the shorter, because it hath been the Providence of God in the late Plague that hath moved me to this work, to which I would have my words have more immediate reference. Many wicked men are oftentimes the worse
1Secondly, WIcked men will be worse under the dispensations of Gods Ordinances. But here I shall be the shorter, because it hath been the Providence of God in the late Plague that hath moved me to this work, to which I would have my words have more immediate reference. Many wicked men are oftentimes the worse
- 1Wicked men are worse,
1. 1For the Word of God and the preaching ⟨p. 47⟩thereof: Not that there is any thing in the Word to make men so, but it is *accidental to the Word; it may be occasioned by the Word, but caused by their own corruptions. Ministers might preach till they waste their strength, and yet they will be Whoremongers and Adulterers still, they will be envious and malicious still. The same Sun that softens the Wax, doth harden the Clay: Obed-Edom was blessed for the Ark of God, but the Philistines were cursed for it. Ungodly men suck poison from the sweet Flowers of Gods Word, which yields nourishment to the souls of Gods people. Weak eyes are the sorer if they look upon the Sun. Naturalists observe, that the fragrancy of precious Ointments is wholesome for the Dove, but it kills the Beetle; and that Vultures are killed with the Oil of Roses. And St. Paul, that the Word is to some, the savour of life unto life, and to others, the savour of death unto death,