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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 1
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.
11. Great and constant diligent care should be taken in time of health, to keep our purposes, to perform our resolutions, and to pay our vows to God, which we made in time of sickness, and danger, and distress, if you consider these particulars.
11. GReat and constant diligent care should be taken in time of health, to keep our purposes, to perform our resolutions, and to pay our vows to God, which we made in time of sickness, and danger, and distress, if you consider these particulars.
- 1Seven Arguments for care to keep o•r resolutions made in time of fear and sickness.
1. 1That one great deceit of the heart of man doth appear in this, in being forward to purpose in our selves, and promise unto God, but are backward to perform. In time of sickness, what resolutions do men make? what purposes have they in themselves, to mend and turn to God, and seem to promise this with tears in their eyes, and sorrow in their hearts, for the evil that is ⟨p. 109⟩past and done, and seem to others, and think verily themselves, that they promise in good earnest, and mean to do as they do speak, and when they think the danger is past, and their fears removed, do nothing less than what they promised: I have known some upon sick beds so to promise, that they would be drunk no more, &c. and yet when health hath been restored, have returned to their wickedness: So did Pharaoh promise fair when the Plagues of God were upon the Land, that he would let the children of Israel go; but when the Plagues have been removed, he hath hardened his heart against them more than before; and this he often did.