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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.
1. 1This is great hypocrisy, to purpose and not perform: You seemed in your affliction to be affected with your condition, and to be afflicted for your transgression, and to approve of an holy conversation, then you could weep for sin, and now you work it; you could then lament it, and now commit it; then you seemed to be changed from what you really were before when you lived in some known sin; but now it appears that you have really lost that good which you did seem to have, and made profession of in time of your sickness. It is usual with Hypocrites to be best when they are ill, and to be worst when they are well. Hypocrites have their good moods, are good by fits; sometimes pray, but not always. Job 27.8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite,— V. 10. Will he delight himself in the Lord? will he always call upon God? i. e. He will not at all times, and in all conditions pray to God; when he is sick, he may, but when his sickness is removed, his Prayers are abated; It is a sign thy goodness was as a morning cloud, and as the early dew, it's gone away. Hos. 6.4.
1. 1This is great hypocrisie, to purpose and not perform: You seemed in your affliction to be affected with your condition, and to be afflicted for your transgression, and to approve of an holy conversation, then you could weep for sin, and now you work it; you could then lament it, and now commit it; then you seemed to be changed from what you really were before when you lived in some known sin; but now it appears that you have really lost that good which you did seem to have, and made profession of in time of your sickness. It is usual with Hypocrites to be best when they are ill, and to be worst when they are well. Hypocrites have their good moods, are good by fits; sometimes pray, but not alwayes. Job 27.8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite,— V. 10. Will he delight himself in the Lord? will he alwayes call upon God? i. e. He will not at all times, and in all conditions pray to God; when he is sick, he may, but when his sickness is removed, his Prayers are abated; It is a sign thy goodness was as a morning cloud, and as the early dew, it's gone away.