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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.
Secondly, That sin that all other sins do wait upon and veil to, and bring in their aid and assistance to maintain, is your beloved sin.
Secondly, That sin that all other sins doe wait upon and vail to, and bring in their aid and assistance to maintain, is your beloved sin.
Thirdly, That sin of which you are most impatient of reproof; you can hear of other sins, and be reproved for other sins, but if you are ⟨p. 117⟩plainly dealt with about this, you cannot so easily bear it, but you will find your corrupt heart to bestir it self to find out excuses to extenuate it, and plead for it; that is likely your beloved sin.
Thirdly, That sin of which you are most impatient of reproof; you can hear of other sins, and be reproved for other sins, but if you are ⟨p. 117⟩plainly dealt with about this, you cannot so easily bear it, but you will finde your corrupt heart to bestir it self to finde out excuses to extenuate it, and plead for it; that is likely your beloved sin.
Fourthly, That sin is likely your Darling, when disappointments of the fulfilling, and pleasing of it, is more grievous to your soul than the frustrations of any other sin.