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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
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6. You are not so good as others are, that have had but the same time, and the same means, and Helps as you have had, nay some that have not had so much preaching as you have had, nor such Examples as you have had, nor so much time, that did set out for Heaven after you, that were bad while you were good, yet have overtaken you, and gone beyond you: Oh Christian, thou art lagging behind, put on, least thou shouldest be last of all.
6. You are not so good as others are, that have had but the same time, and the same means, and Helps as you have had, nay some that have not had so much preaching as you have had, nor such Examples as you have had, nor so much time, that did set out for Heaven after you, that were bad while you were good, yet have overtaken you, and gone beyond you: Oh Christian, thou art lagging behinde, put on, least thou shouldest be last of all.
7. You are not so good, but you are as bad. You have not so much grace, but you have as much sin; nay, is not your sin more than your grace? is not your unbelief more than your faith? and ⟨p. 99⟩your wandering thoughts in duty more than your fixed thoughts in duty? and your dullness more than your liveliness? If thou canst say truly, it is not, do thou go and bless God that it is not so with thee, while I must go and be humbled before God, because it is so with me.
7. You are not so good, but you are as bad. You have not so much grace, but you have as much sin; nay, is not your sin more than your grace? is not your unbelief more than your faith? and ⟨p. 99⟩your wandring thoughts in duty more than your fixed thoughts in duty? and your dulness more than your liveliness? If thou canst say truely, it is not, do thou go and bless God that it is not so with thee, while I must go and be humbled before God, because it is so with me.