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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
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6. Displeasure of men. Thou hast had dependence upon some that hate such sins that thou lovest in thy heart, but because thou wouldest not loose their favour thou hast bridled thy sin, but now thou layest the reigns loose upon the neck of thy lusts, and wilt proceed to obey them, let who will be displeased thereby. When thou wilt displease thy best friend, and them upon whom thou dost depend for lively-hood and maintenance, that thou mayst please thy lust, it is a sign that sin is very high in thy heart, any one of these formerly were a sufficient bolt to keep thee from grosser sins, but now all put together are too weak; a sign that sin is so much the stronger.
6. Displeasure of men. Thou hast had dependance upon some that hate such sins that thou lovest in thy heart, but because thou wouldest not loose their favour thou hast bridled thy sin, but now thou layest the reignes loose upon the neck of thy lusts, and wilt proceed to obey them, let who will be displeased thereby. When thou wilt displease thy best friend, and them upon whom thou dost depend for lively-hood and maintenance, that thou mayst please thy lust, it is a sign that sin is very high in thy heart, any one of these formerly were a sufficient bolt to keep thee from grosser sins, but now all put together are too weak; a signe that sin is so much the stronger.
X. The more thou hast had experience of the dreadful effects of sin, and the more God hath punished thee for thy sin, and yet wilt proceed, the greater sinner thou art. God hath punished thee ⟨p. 66⟩with poverty as the fruit of thy sin; with diseases in thy body, with horrors in thy conscience, with the death of thy relations; when thou hast tasted the bitterness of sin to set against the pleasures of sin, when God hath put worm-wood and gall into thy sin, yet thou art bent upon it: thou art very bad.
X. The more thou hast had experience of the dreadfull effects of sin, and the more God hath punished thee for thy sin, and yet wilt proceed, the greater sinner thou art. God hath punished thee