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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.
14.1 Fill your heart with an holy Zeal for Gods glory; and if you be zealous for the glory of God, you will be courageous against all Impediments and Obstructions of an holy conversation. Courage is opposed to slavish Fears, and Zeal is opposed to Lukewarmness: And Lukewarmness is inconsistent with the practice you have resolved upon. You have purposed to pray more fervently than you were wont to do, but if your heart be as lukewarm in Religion, you cannot do it; you have purposed to lay out your self more for the good of souls, to endeavour to help others in their way to heaven, but if you be as lukewarm as before, you cannot do more than you did before: But if your heart be inflamed with zeal for God, more than before, you will perform all your Religious undertakings with more life than before, you will pray with more life, and preach with more life, and speak to men about the things of God and another ⟨p. 128⟩world, than you did before; and this is the performance of your Purpose.
14.1 Fill your heart with an holy Zeal for Gods glory; and if you be zealous for the glory of God, you will be couragious against all Impediments and Obstructions of an holy conversation. Courage is opposed to slavish Fears, and Zeal is opposed to Lukewarmness: And Lukewarmness is inconsistent with the practice you have resolved upon. You have purposed to pray more fervently than you were wont to do, but if your heart be as lukewarm in Religion, you cannot do it; you have purposed to lay out your self more for the good of souls, to endeavour to help others in their way to heaven, but if you be as lukewarm as before, you cannot do more than you did before: But if your heart be enflamed with zeal for God, more than before, you will perform all your Religious undertakings with more life than before, you will pray with more life, and preach with more life, and speak to men about the things of God and another ⟨p. 128⟩world, than you did before; and this is the performance of your Purpose.
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