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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 13
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.
II. The less thou lyest under the common workings of the Spirit of God, the worse thou art: Though thou hearest and prayest as before, yet the Spirit of God doth not strive with thee as before: Thou wast wont to find thy heart something affected, and to have some common convictions and relentings for sin, and some purposes and resolutions to forsake thy sin, and leave thy wicked ways and company, and almost persuaded to come over unto Christ; but now thou art no more affected than the seat thou fittest upon, and the Pillar thou leanest against; thou hast quenched the motions of the Spirit, and he in wrath hath departed from thee, and leaves thee to the hardness of thy heart, and the blindness of thy mind, and then thou must needs be waxing worse.
II. The lesse thou lyest under the common workings of the Spirit of God, the worse thou art: Though thou hearest and prayest as before, yet the Spirit of God doth not strive with thee as before: Thou wast wont to finde thy heart something affected, and to have some common convictions and relentings for sin, and some purposes and resolutions to forsake thy sin, and leave thy wicked wayes and company, and almost perswaded to come over unto Christ; but now thou art no more affected than the seat thou fittest upon, and the Pillar thou leanest against; thou hast quenched the motions of the Spirit, and he in wrath hath departed from thee, and leaves thee to the hardness of thy heart, and the blindness of thy minde, and then thou must needs be waxing worse.
III. The more thou art found in the Iteration and Repetition of the acts of sin, the worse thou art. Thou wast wont to swear but seldom, but now Oaths are frequent in thy mouth: Thou wast wont to be drunk more seldom, but now it is thy weekly, or thy daily practice; Iteration of sin is an aggravation of sin: The number of thy sins, and the greatness of thy guilt is hereby increased, and thou made worse.
III. The more thou art found in the Iteration and Repetition of the acts of sin, the worse thou art. Thou wast wont to swear but seldom, but now Oaths are frequent in thy mouth: Thou wast wont to be drunk more seldom, but now it is thy weekly, or thy daily practice; Iteration of sin is an aggravation of sin: The number of thy sins, and the greatness of thy guilt is hereby encreased, and thou made worse.