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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 12
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.
That many wicked men are so, we have showed before, and given the proof and reasons of it, But woe to you whose case this is: Is this the return you make to God? Is this the fruit of his patience and forbearance to you? Do you thus requite the Lord? Oh foolish people and unwise! Deut. 32.6. Will you seriously consider this evil frame of heart, and this ungodly practise in your lives, in these following particulars?
THat many wicked men are so, we have shewed before, and given the proof and reasons of it, But wo to you whose case this is: Is this the return you make to God? Is this the fruit of his patience and forbearance to you? Do you thus requite the Lord? Oh foolish people and unwise! Deut. 32.6. Will you seriously consider this evil frame of heart, and this ungodly practise in your lives, in these following particulars?
I. Are you worse then you were before, then you are more like unto the Devil than you were before, and the more unlike to God that made you. A man full of all sin, and bent to every wickedness ⟨p. 53⟩is called a child of the Devil, Act. 13.10. The Devil sins as much as he can, and thou dost as wickedly as thou canst, Jer. 3.5. It is a folly in men to picture things immaterial and invisible, and living, by things without life,1 material and visible; never send a man to view the picture of the Devil with a cloven foot drawn by Art, the most exact and accurate lively picture of the Devil (as a Devil, that is, as a sinner) is the worst of wicked men; and who are worse than thou, that neither mercy can draw, nor judgement drive to God and Christ?