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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.
2. 1This is double Iniquity; it is twisted wickedness: It is one sin woven with another; it is ⟨p. 133⟩not only double dealing, but it brings double guilt; if thou hadst not made thy vow and resolution to pray frequently, it had been but a single sin, if thou hadst been seldom in it, but now it is a double sin, and hath double guilt; that thou dost omit to pray, this is one sin; that thou dost omit it, after thou hast promised, and resolved and vowed to do it, this is the other sin; and indeed is this thy mending in thy sickness and dangers, to be doubling thine iniquity?
2. 1This is double Iniquity; it is twisted wickedness: It is one sin woven with another; it is ⟨p. 133⟩not onely double dealing, but it brings double guilt; if thou hadst not made thy vow and resolution to pray frequently, it had been but a single sin, if thou hadst been seldom in it, but now it is a double sin, and hath double guilt; that thou dost omit to pray, this is one sin; that thou dost omit it, after thou hast promised, and resolved and vowed to do it, this is the other sin; and indeed is this thy mending in thy sickness and dangers, to be doubling thine iniquity?
- 1Double Iniquity.
3. 1This is great folly, Eccles. 5.4. When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay t• o he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed: It is folly to do that which is better be undone than done. Vers. 5. Better it is that thou shouldest not vow, then vow and not pay. In thy affliction thou shouldest have learned wisdom and not committed folly.