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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 17
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.
But let it be your great care whom God hath spared from the grave in this time of Plague, that are such as truly fear God, and are truly good: On take heed, that after such a preservation none of you might be found worse than you were; for though those that once were truly good, shall never so decline as to be [absolutely] bad, yet they may so far fail, that they may [comparatively] be said to be worse. Here consider,
But let it be your great care whom God hath spared from the grave in this time of Plague, that are such as truely fear God, and are truely good: On take heed, that after such a preservation none of you might be found worse than you were; for though those that once were truely good, shall never so decline as to be [absolutely] bad, yet they may so farre fail, that they may [comparatively] be sayd to be worse. Here consider,
11. To lose any degrees of Goodness and Grace, is a grievous and a sinful loss: If you had lost your life in this Plague, it might not have been your sin, but you cannot be in the least degree worse than you were (after such a providence) but it is a great sin: Because it is our duty to love God as much as we can, therefore to lose any degrees of our love to God, is to come short of our Duty, and therefore a sin.
11. To lose any degrees of Goodness and Grace, is a grievous and a sinfull loss: If you had lost your life in this Plague, it might not have been your sin, but you cannot be in the least degree worse than you were (after such a providence) but it is a great sin: Because it is our duty to love God as much as we can, therefore to lose any degrees of our love to God, is to come short of our Duty, and therefore a sin.
- 1Ten Aggravations of Gods Peoples sin, if they be worse.