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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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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.
8. The better you are, the more excellent you will be. Riches is not your excellency, and Learning is not your excellency, and Grace is not your utmost and your highest excellency, but the highest degrees of Grace is. Reason makes a man differ from a beast; and the more rational a man is (by the improvement of Reason) than others, the more excellent as a man (for a Fool might excel a Wise man in riches) he is above other men: So Grace makes a Christian differ from a man as such, and the better Christian he is than others, the more excellent he is than other Christians are.
8. The better you are, the more excellent you will be. Riches is not your excellency, and Learning is not your excellency, and Grace is not your utmost and your highest excellency, but the highest degrees of Grace is. Reason makes a man differ from a beast; and the more rational a man is (by the improvement of Reason) than others, the more excellent as a man (for a Fool might excell a Wise man in riches) he is above other men: So Grace makes a Christian differ from a man as such, and the better Christian he is than others, the more excellent he is than other Christians are.