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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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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.
7. If you are worse than you were, you will have less experience of the workings of God upon your heart, than you had before. You will not have such experience of his quickening presence, nor of the powerful Operations of the Spirit upon your heart; and what is it, if you feel the motions and acting of life, if you do not feel the motions of the Spirit so much upon your heart?
7. If you are worse than you were, you will have less experience of the workings of God upon your heart, than you had before. You will not have such experience of his quickning presence, nor of the powerful Operations of the Spirit upon your heart; and what is it, if you feel the motions and acting of life, if you do not feel the motions of the Spirit so much upon your heart?
8. If you are worse, you will dishonour God more than you did before, and that you need not do, you did that too much before: And hath God spared you to live to his dishonour? I tell you, you had better dyed with others in the Plague, than live after it to dishonour God.