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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.
IV. The more kinds of sins thou dost usually fall into, the worse thou art. Thou wast wont to swear, but not to be drunk, but now both: Thou wast wont to be drunk, but wast not given to uncleanness; but now thou art; and to uncleanness thou addest scorning at godliness, when sometimes thou seemedst to approve it, and speak for it; and to thy scorning of godliness, thou proceedest to the persecution of godliness, when before thou didst pretend to favour and to countenance it. Thou art increased in thy wickedness.
IV. The more kinds of sins thou dost usually fall into, the worse thou art. Thou wast wont to swear, but not to be drunk, but now both: Thou wast wont to be drunk, but wast not given to uncleanness; but now thou art; and to uncleanness thou addest scorning at godliness, vvhen sometimes thou seemedst to approve it, and speak for it; and to thy scorning of godliness, thou proceedest to the persecution of godliness, when before thou didst pretend to favour and to countenance it. Thou art increased in thy wickedness.
V. The fewer self-Reflections, the worse thou art. Thou wast use to reflect upon thy ways, and sometimes consider of thy deviations from the Rule of holiness, and thy Conscience did check and did reprove thee; but now thou goest on and never lookest back, so much as to consider wherein thou goest astray; and though thou art more wicked, and more vile, yet thou hast more peace and quietness in thy ways. It is ⟨p. 62⟩because thy heart is more hard, and thy Conscience more seared, and thou worse.
V. The fewer self-Reflexions, the worse thou art. Thou wast use to reflect upon thy wayes, and sometimes consider of thy deviations from the Rule of holiness, and thy Conscience did check and did reprove thee; but now thou goest on and never lookest back, so much as to consider wherein thou goest astray; and though thou art more wicked, and more vile, yet thou hast more peace and quietness in thy wayes. It is ⟨p. 62⟩