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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 2
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.
SECT. II.
II.1 I Come to the Helps to be prescribed for the better performance of your Purposes and Resolutions of a holy, heavenly, Gospel-conversation, ⟨p. 116⟩made in time of your danger by reason of the Plague. If you would live up to your Resolution of an holy life, then
- 1Twenty Helps for keeping our Resolutions.
1. 1Evermore take heed of your Beloved sin; take heed of that which is to you Peccatum in delitiis; your darling Lust, which by way of special propriety you may call your own. Keep a very strict hand over it, for if any sin undo you, it is likely to be this, and if there be any sin that will weaken your endeavours to live according to your purpose, it will be this: Beware of all, but especially of this; maintain your holy warfare against the whole host of sin, but especially fight against this as the General and Commander of all the rest: Whether it be pride, or worldliness, or the pleasing of your sensitive Appetite, or the Lusts of the Flesh, &c. That you may know what is your Darling sin, take these signs.
1. 1Evermore take heed of your Beloved sin; take heed of that which is to you Peccatum in delitiis; your darling Lust, which by way of special propriety you may call your own. Keep a very strict hand over it, for if any sin undoe you, it is likely to be this, and if there be any sin that will weaken your endeavours to live according to your purpose, it will be this: Beware of all, but especially of this; maintain your holy warfare against the whole hoast of sin, but especially fight against this as the General and Commander of all the rest: Whether it be pride, or worldliness, or the pleasing of your sensitive Appetite, or the Lusts of the Flesh, &c. That you may know what is your Darling sin, take these signs.