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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.
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.
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 Innoble 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 finde 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 carryed back.
6. 1The opposition you may meet withal from your nearest Friends, will make it evident that there is need of your greatest diligence to make good your good resolutions. You have purposed in your heart to spend more time for God, and your soul, and for the life to come, if you do so as you have resolved, it may be thy father, the Wife of thy bosom, thy fellow-servants, will scorn thee and deride thee, and set themselves against thee. Thou hast purposed in thy heart to reprove sinners for their Oaths and Drunkenness, and Profaneness, and if thou do so, they will envy thee for thy pity, and hate thee for thy love; it may cost thee dear, it may expose thee to trouble from men, and from those that by bonds of Nature are nearest to thee, if thou wilt indeed come up in thy practice in time of health and safety, to thy Resolutions, which thou didst believe was thy duty to make, in time of sickness and danger.