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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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14. The better you are, the more glory you will bring to God. Herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit, Joh. 15.8. And what is your design in the world, but to glorify God, and to do that, and be that which tendeth most thereunto?
14. The better you are, the more glory you will bring to God. Herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit, Joh. 15.8. And what is your design in the world, but to glorifie God, and to do that, and be that which tendeth most thereunto?
15. The better you are, the more you will credit Religion, and realize the ways of God; it will appear that Religion is a real thing, when it hath made bad men good, and good men better. If there were nothing else to disgrace the ways of sin, this would be abundantly sufficient to behold the great wickedness of those men (how bad they be) that walk most therein.
15. The better you are, the more you will credit Religion, and realize the wayes of God; it will appear that Religion is a real thing, when it hath made bad men good, and good men better. If there were nothing else to disgrace the ways of sin, this would be abundantly sufficient to behold the great wickedness of those men (how bad they be) that walk most therein.
16. The better you are while you live, the more undaunted you shall be when you come to dye: The reason why we are so troubled in our sickness, is because we were no better in our health; conscience then remembers at such a time I sinned, and at such a place I fell, and in such company I defiled my soul; be better in Health, you will be the better in sickness and death.