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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 18
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4. They are seemingly like to God, but are really like the Devil.
5. They associate with Gods Children, but are none of Gods Children; for all Gods Children are good.
6. They have no true peace, Isa. 57.21. But God hath really preserved you from death, and really kept you alive, therefore be not satisfied to be seemingly good, but be really so.
Posit. 3. That there be many that are really good, that are not gradually good, that have grace in truth, that have not grace in growth. Those that are seemingly good are not so many as those that are openly bad, and those that are ⟨p. 95⟩really good are not so many as those that are seemingly good, and those that are gradually good are not so many as those that are really good. Ever the better the fewer, both for kind and degree. It is so in Naturals; not so many Whales as lesser Fish; not so many Eagles as little Birds; not so many Suns as Stars: And so it is in Spirituals; not so many strong men in Christ, as babes; not so many tall Cedars, as there are Shrubs in Gods Lebanon. Now my purpose is to exhort you (especially after such a Providence) to be not only really good, but to be gradually good.