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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.
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 ⟨p. 66⟩with poverty as the fruite of thy sin; with diseases in thy body, with horrours 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.
XI. The more thou justifiest and defendest thy self after the commission of sin than formerly, so much the worser thou art than formerly. When thou wast reproved, thou wast use to acknowledge thy sin, and to confess thy wickedness, but now thou dost plead for thy lust, and pleadest for thy evil ways, and takest the quarrel of sin upon thy self, it is a sign thy heart is more wedded to thy lusts, by how much the more thou espousest its cause.
XI. The more thou justifiest and defendest thy self after the commission of sin than formerly, so much the worser thou art than formerly. When thou wast reproved, thou wast use to acknowledge thy sin, and to confess thy wickedness, but now thou dost plead for thy lust, and pleadest for thy evil wayes, and takest the quarrell of sin upon thy self, it is a signe thy heart is more wedded to thy lusts, by how much the more thou espousest its cause.