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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.
3. You are not so good as you ought to be, no, not by many degrees; you come far short of what you should be in grace and goodness.
3. You are not so good as you ought to be, no, not by many degrees; you come farr short of what you should be in grace and goodness.
4. You are not so good as you may be: Though you cannot be so good as you were in Adam, as you shall be in Heaven, as you ought to be upon earth, yet you may be better than you are. You have not so many degrees of love to God, but you may have more, nor such strong desires ⟨p. 98⟩after Christ, but you may have more: How weak is thy love! how cold are thy desires! how stupid is thy heart! not only in comparison of what it ought to be, but of what it may be: Thou wantest many degrees, Oh Christian, put on, there is much more that is yet attainable.
5. You are not so good, but you need to be better. If thou be no better, and shouldst come into some conditions, thou wouldest be found not good enough to go through the same as becomes the Gospel. Thou mightest be brought into those straits, and assaulted by those temptations, that except thou hast more Patience, more Love to God, more Faith in Christ, thou wilt not be able to bear them, nor resist them, as becomes a Child of God to do: Thy burdens might yet be greater, and thy Duties greater, and thy Temptations greater, therefore thou shouldest hasten to be better.
5. You are not so good, but you need to be better. If thou be no better, and shouldst come into some conditions, thou wouldest be found not good enough to go through the same as becomes the Gospel. Thou mightest be brought into those straits, and assaulted by those temptations, that except thou hast more Patience, more Love to God, more Faith in Christ, thou wilt not be able to bear them, nor resist them, as becomes a Childe of God to doe: Thy burdens might yet be greater, and thy Duties greater, and thy Temptations greater, therefore thou shouldest hasten to be better.