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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.
I am persuaded if the people in London (and in Country too) would live up according to the purpose of their heart, in time of danger of the Plague, would reform and mend as they did resolve to do, we should be much better than we were before. Oh what a difference would there be in the frame of our hearts, and in the course ⟨p. 108⟩of our lives! What a change would there be in all our practises? Those that were forward Professors of Religion, and were not much more then Professors, would be zealous practisers of Religious duties; and in order hereunto I shall to follow this direction, do three things.
I am perswaded if the people in London (and in Country too) would live up according to the purpose of their heart, in time of danger of the Plague, would reform and mend as they did resolve to do, we should be much better than we were before. Oh what a difference would there be in the frame of our hearts, and in the course ⟨p. 108⟩of our lives! What a change would there be in all our practises? Those that were forward Professors of Religion, and were not much more then Professors, would be zealous practisers of Religious duties; and in order hereunto I shall to follow this direction, do three things.
1. Lay down some considerations why you should be careful to keep your purposes, resolutions and vows.
2. Prescribe some helps how you may perform your purposes, resolutions and vows.
2. Prescribe some helpes how you may perform your purposes, resolutions and vows.