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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.
13. 1Steel your heart with an holy courage against all oppositions in your way of performance: Take heed of slavish fears which enfeeble your resolutions, and put a stop in the way of an holy life you have resolved upon; fear of danger and of death made you to resolve to keep close to God, and yet your fear of death, and ⟨p. 127⟩fear of danger for holiness sake, will hinder your living up to those Purposes and Resolutions. Fear of death natural and from God, was the occasion of your resolving to practise an holy life; but fears of death violent, and from men, will be the cause of your breach of promise so to do: Therefore resolve to live up to your Resolutions, though loss of Estate, Liberty, or Life, should attend you for so doing.
13. 1Steel your heart with an holy courage against all oppositions in your way of performance: Take heed of slavish fears which enfeeble your resolutions, and put a stop in the way of an holy life you have resolved upon; fear of danger and of death made you to resolve to keep close to God, and yet your fear of death, and ⟨p. 127⟩fear of danger for holiness sake, will hinder your living up to those Purposes and Resolutions. Fear of death natural and from God, was the occasion of your resolving to practise an holy life; but fears of death violent, and from men, will be the cause of your breach of promise so to doe: Therefore resolve to live up to your Resolutions, though loss of Estate, Liberty, or Life, should attend you for so doing.
- 1Holy courage.