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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.
Secondly, The things you have resolved to do, are supernatural, above Nature; it is not in the power of Nature to enable you to do what you have resolved upon. You resolved in your time of fears and danger, to pray to God more fervently; but Nature cannot help you to do this: To believe more steadfastly, to love God more ardently, to walk with God more holily, but all these are above the power of Nature; and must be wrought in you by the supernatural and almighty power of God; and yet you did well to resolve to endeavour to do all these, if you did remember to make your resolution, in the strength of Christ to do this, by whose strength we can do all things, Philip. 4.13.
Secondly, The things you have resolved to do, are supernatural, above Nature; it is not in the power of Nature to enable you to do what you have resolved upon. You resolved in your time of fears and danger, to pray to God more fervently; but Nature cannot help you to do this: To believe more stedfastly, to love God more ardently, to walk with God more holily, but all these are above the power of Nature; and must be wrought in you by the supernatural and almighty power of God; and yet you did well to resolve to endeavour to do all these, if you did remember to make your resolution, in the strength of Christ to do this, by whose strength we can do all things, Philip. 4.13.
Thirdly, The things you have resolved to do are contra-natural, against Nature, i. e. against corrupt nature: For our love to God doth not destroy the faculty or affection of Love, but perfect ⟨p. 114⟩it and Ennoble it, but it doth destroy our love to sin, and our love to the World, and the things of the World. Now to do that which is against corrupt Nature is very hard, you will find it exceeding difficult, it is swimming against the stream, and rowing against the tide, that if you do not ply your Oar, you will be carried back.