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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.
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.
XII. When thou art more presumptuous in thy sinnings, and addest more contempt of God, and pride and contumacy than formerly, the worse thou art. Sins of presumption are scarlet sins, of a crimson dye; when a man sinneth against God, and blesseth himself in his wickedness, and presumeth of Gods mercy, and presumeth upon the patience of God, a man that sins presumptuously makes a bold adventure against express threatenings of the Law of God, and is mingled with great contempt of God; it is no less than reproaching and despising of God himself, Num. 15.30. But the soul that doth ought presumptuously —reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall ⟨p. 67⟩be cut off from among his people, vers. 31. Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment; that soul shall be utterly cut off: his iniquity shall be upon him.
XII. When thou art more presumptuous in thy sinnings, and addest more contempt of God, and pride and contumacy than formerly, the worse thou art. Sins of presumption are scarlet sins, of a crimson dye; when a man sinneth against God, and blesseth himself in his wickedness, and presumeth of Gods mercy, and presumeth upon the patience of God, a man that sins presumptuously makes a bold adventure against express threatnings of the Law of God, and is mingled with great contempt of God; it is no less than reproaching and despising of God himself,