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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 3
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. III.
III.1 The Aggravations of the breach of your Vows and Resolutions made against sin, and for holiness, when fears of death were upon you, do exceedingly heighten and increase your sin; and because sick-bed Promises are so seldom made good, and sick-bed Resolutions usually prove so ineffectual, I shall desire you who have the Vows of God upon you, and who have resolved (if God would continue to ⟨p. 132⟩you l•fe) as God and Conscience, and it may be others, are witnesses of, that you would weigh seriously as in the presence of God, the evil of breaking your Vows, and being careless of your Resolutions.
III.1 THe Aggravations of the breach of your Vows and Resolutions made against sin, and for holiness, when fears of death were upon you, do exceedingly heighten and increase your sin; and because sick-bed Promises are so seldom made good, and sick-bed Resolutions usually prove so ineffectual, I shall desire you who have the Vows of God upon you, and who have resolved (if God would continue to ⟨p. 132⟩you l•fe) as God and Conscience, and it may be others, are witnesses of, that you would weigh seriously as in the presence of God, the evil of breaking your Vows, and being careless of your Resolutions.
- 1Fourteen Aggravations of neglect to live up to our holy Resolutions.