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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 16
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.
VII. 1In this great house of so great mourning, God hath been teaching you, that all things fall alike to all, that the wise must dye as well as the fool, and the good must dye as well as the bad. And though God hath promised [conditionally] preservation from the Plague unto his people, which hath been literally fulfilled to some of his, yet some of his have fallen in this general mortality, God hath been teaching of you, that though grace doth deliver from eternal death, yet not from temporal; though from the sting, yet not from the stroke of death, that you (though godly) should be preparing for your own departure out of this world.
- 1Parity in ••t ••d afflictions.
VIII. 1In this great house of so great mourning, God hath been teaching you the difference between the death of the wicked and the death of the righteous, that though good and bad alike have dyed, yet they have not dyed alike. But as there was a difference in their life, so God did make a difference in their death: Have not you seen some wicked dye without any sense of sin, or ⟨p. 87⟩fear of God, or Hell? and some with terrors in their consciences? and have you not seen some godly dye with peace and comfort, and giving good evidences of their hope of a better life? that God hath filled them with joys that they were going to their Fathers house? and that the plague and death had not so much in them to terrify and affright, as the hopes of heaven had to comfort and support their hearts. It hath been ground of great rejoicing to hear: how many of Gods people in this plague did dye with joy and comfort? And should not y•u by such a sight as this, be quickened in your service unto God, and ever while you live look upon Religion as a real thing, that letteth in such real comforts into their hearts, who had real grace, in such time of real discouragements; after such a sight as this, never think it a vain thing to serve God (though you must dye) who comforts his peoples souls in the very gates of death?