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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 19
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.
SECT. XIX.
11. You are not so good as once you were; I mean in your Primitive condition and first creation, we had more goodness as we came out of the hands of God; then we had good and no evil: And when God hath restored us, we should labour to come up as near to what we were in Adam, (though not by the same Covenant) as we can.
11. YOu are not so good as once you were; I mean in your Primitive condition and first creation, we had more goodness as we came out of the hands of God; then we had good and no evil: And when God hath restored us, we should labour to come up as near to what we were in Adam, (though not by the same Covenant) as we can.
- 1Seventeen Arguments to Gods People to be better.
2. You are not so good as you shall be. You were good in Adam, but you shall be better in Heaven: In Adam we were perfectly good, in Heaven we shall be perpetually good; and should you not labour to get as much of Heaven into your heart as you can.