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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 15
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.
1Now I will draw some Corollaries from this first branch of this Direction, and so pass on unto the second. Is it the Nature of sin to make men worse and worse? and do wicked men usually wax worse and worse? Then learn,
1NOw I will draw some Corollaries from this first branch of this Direction, and so pass on unto the second. Is it the Nature of sin to make men worse and worse? and do wicked men usually wax worse and worse? Then learn,
- 1Corollaries from the first part of this Direction.
1. The evil that there is in sin: There is a depth in the evil of sin that cannot be fathomed, and a length in the evil of sin that cannot be measured; that is very bad that makes men so in every condition, as grace is very good that turneth every thing for the best to them to whom it is infused.
2. Learn that wicked men are never from under a curse: Let their condition be what it will, prosperity is a curse unto them, adversity is a curse, and deliverances are in wrath. When they do increase in riches, they do increase in sin; envy not the prosperity of the wicked.