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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.
16. 1Be often renewing your Purposes and Resolutions for an holy life. Frequent acts do beget and strengthen habits: Actually renew your Purpose to pray to God, to walk circumspectly, to discourse of the things of God, and it will at length be habitual to you so to do. If you find upon reflection and self-examination, that your Purposes are weakened, and your heart draws back from that pitch of holiness you did intend to labour after, bind your heart thereto by the ⟨p. 129⟩renewal of your Purposes. If you find you have broken your Resolutions, do not resolve to continue so to do, but repair them. If the Mariner be driven back by winds and storms, yet he keeps and renews his purpose of sailing unto his intended Harbour. If a Traveller fall in his Journey, he gets up and resolves to hold on his way.
16. 1Be often renewing your Purposes and Resolutions for an holy life. Frequent acts do beget and strengthen habits: Actually renew your Purpose to pray to God, to walk circumspectly, to discourse of the things of God, and it will at length be habitual to you so to do. If you finde upon reflection and self-examination, that your Purposes are weakened, and your heart draws back from that pitch of holiness you did intend to labour after, binde your heart thereto by the ⟨p. 129⟩renewal of your Purposes. If you finde you have broken your Resolutions, do not resolve to continue so to do, but repair them. If the Mariner be driven back by windes and storms, yet he keeps and renews his purpose of sailing unto his intended Harbour. If a Traveller fall in his Journey, he gets up and resolves to hold on his way.
- 1Renew your Purpose.