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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.
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.
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4. 1This is to lye to God, to men: A vow is a promise made to God, Deut. 23.•3. That which is gone out of thy lips, thou shalt keep and perform even a free will offering▪ according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. What is first called a vow, is after called a promise, & if thou madest this promise with thy mouth and didst not really intend the fulfilling of it, but didst it, either to deceive thy self or others; or (had it been possible) God himself, what is this but a lye? If the words of thy mouth ⟨p. 134⟩were not conformable to the thoughts of thy mind, that thou spakest one thing in thy sickness, and didst intend another; thou spakest not as thou thoughtest, thou art guilty of a lye