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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 14
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.
Secondly, Dost thou believe the Scripture to be the Word of God, or dost thou not? And are the threatenings contained therein, true, thinkest thou, or are they not? Wilt thou say they be false, or that they were found out by some Precisians, or are the workings of some melancholy brain? or that they were found out by some Politician, to keep the world in awe? I would have thee know, that to thy eternal sorrow thou shalt find them all true, even to a tittle; and to thy everlasting woe shalt know the truth of Gods Word: When thou art shrieking in the flames of Hell, and roaring hideously among the damned, because of Gods eternal wrath; thou shalt be convinced, that the wicked shall be turned into Hell, that the Unbeliever shall be damned, and that it was true which thou wast told, that without repentance there was no deliverance from eternal condemnation.
Secondly, Dost thou believe the Scripture to be the Word of God, or dost thou not? And are the threatnings contained therein, true, thinkest thou, or are they not? Wilt thou say they be false, or that they were found out by some Precisians, or are the workings of some melancholly brain? or that they were found out by some Politician, to keep the world in awe? I would have thee know, that to thy eternal sorrow thou shalt finde them all true, even to a tittle; and to thy everlasting woe shalt know the truth of Gods Word: When thou art shrieking in the flames of Hell, and roaring hideously among the damned, because of Gods eternal wrath; thou shalt be convinced, that the wicked shall be turned into Hell, that the Unbeliever shall be damned, and that it was true which thou wast told, that without repentance there was no deliverance from eternal condemnation.
But if thou dost believe this Word to be true, what aileth thee then to live as thou dost? that thou actest quite contrary to what is contained in the Word of God? Doth not the Word of God in a thousand places cry down sin, and press to holiness? doth it not tell thee, the drunkard, the covetous, the unbelieving, the liar, shall ⟨p. 72⟩be damned? If thou never didst observe such places, take thy Bible and turn unto them.