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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: DIRECTION II.
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.
What shall I render to the Lord, for all his benefits towards me? Vers. 14. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, now in the presence of all his people.
And hath not this been thy case, Christian Reader, did not the sorrows of death compass thee about? Didst thou not find trouble and sorrow? Wast thou not brought very low, and received the sentence of death within thy self? Didst thou not then call upon the name of the Lord, and resolve thou wouldst walk before the Lord, if he would restore thee? and hath not God delivered thy soul from death, and thy feet from falling? Then pay thy vows to God, and perform to him thy promise, and live up unto thy resolutions.
And hath not this been thy case, Christian Reader, did not the sorrows of death compass thee about? Didst thou not finde trouble and sorrow? Wast thou not brought very low, and received the sentence of death within thy self? Didst thou not then call upon the name of the Lord, and resolve thou wouldst walk before the Lord, if he would restore thee? and hath not God delivered thy soul from death, and thy feet from falling? Then pay thy vows to God, and perform to him thy promise, and live up unto thy resolutions.
Tell me, what were thy purposes when thou heardest the Plague had entered into thy Neighbours house, when it came unto the family nearest unto thine? What were thy resolutions when the Plague did enter into thy house, and took one away, and then another? What were thy holy, deliberate, lawful vows, when it seized upon thy body? When thou betookest thy self unto thy bed, to sweat out thy distemper? When thou foundest Risings on thy Body, Swellings and Carbuncles in several parts, when the apprehensions of death did fill thy mind, and the terrors of the Lord did fill thy heart, when thou ⟨p. 105⟩