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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
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5. If you be worse, you will have less Comfort from God than you had before. If you deny Duty to him, which you performed to him before, he will deny that comfort to you, which he gave you before, and what will your life be, without the comforts of God let down into your soul? is not his loving kindness better than life? Psal. 63.3. and what is life if you have no comfort in it? and where will you have solid, lasting, suitable, satisfying comfort, if not from God?
5. If you be worse, you will have less Comfort from God than you had before. If you deny Duty to him, which you performed to him before, he will deny that comfort to you, which he gave you before, and what will your life be, without the comforts of God let down into your soul? is not his loving kindness better than life? Psal. 63.3. and what is life if you have no comfort in it? and where wi•l you have solid, lasting, suitable, satisfying comfort, if not from God?
6. If you are worse in your spiritual condition than you were before, and love God less, and desire after him less, and delight in him less, you will have less Evidences for Heaven than you had before, you will not so clearly see ⟨p. 92⟩your Interest in Christ, your title to his Kingdom, as you did before; and do you live to blot your Evidences? Oh what an aggravation will it be to you, to say, before the Plague I knew that God did love me, but now I doubt of it. Before I knew, if I had dyed I should have been saved, but now if I should dye, I cannot tell.