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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.
Now this deceitfulness of the heart is yet in part remaining in the best of men, and therefore you must be careful, else though you have promised, you will never perform.
Now this deceitfulness of the heart is yet in part remaining in the best of men, and therefore you must be carefull, else though you have promised, you will never perform.
2. 1That sin is of a bewitching, encroaching and alluring nature; if it can prevail, it will keep you from resolving against it; if you do resolve, it will entreat you that you would not send it far from you, that your Resolution might not be peremptory and universal, that if you resolve to banish it from your heart, it might be only some of its members that are not so dear unto you, and reserve the rest; or if it be peremptory and universal, that you will part with all sin, it will contend that your Resolution may not be perpetual, that you send it not away for ⟨p. 110⟩ever, but only till your danger of death is over, and your fears thereof are ceased, that then it may be received into your heart, be your Favourite again; or if you do resolve to part with sin, peremptorily, universally and perpetually, yet after a while it will solicit you to change your resolution; or if you will not change it, it will solicit you to abate the strength and vehemency thereof; and will come and offer you so much delight, and so much pleasure, and so much profit, if you will not be so severe against it. If you are not careful, it will encroach upon your heart, and insinuate and wind it self into your love and delight, and allure your will into a consent, first not to be so severe, next to indulge it, then to countenance it, and then to renew its acquaintance, till it again become familiar to you.
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