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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.
The like I might say of thy vow, before thou hadst made it, it was in thy power, Deut. 23.22. But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee; but if thou hast vowed, God will surely require it of thee, and to slack to pay would be sin in thee. Vers. 21. Why then hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart, to lie to the Holy Ghost, in ⟨p. 135⟩making a vow and not paying, thou liest not to men, but unto God. Oh fear and tremble least death should seize thee presently, and thou fall down and give up the ghost. In thy vow thou liest unto God, if thou dost not pay, because we must vow only to God; for sacred vows are a part of Religious worship, which must be given only unto God, Deut. 23.21. Eccles. 5.4. But in thy promises thou hast made to men, thou hast lied unto men; and all this doth aggravate thy neglect of coming up to thy vows and promises in time of sickness and fears.
The like I might say of thy vow, before thou hadst made it, it was in thy power, Deut. 23.22. But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee; but if thou hast vowed, God will surely require it of thee, and to slack to pay would be sin in thee. Vers. 21. Why then hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart, to lie to the Holy Ghost, in ⟨p. 135⟩making a vow and not paying, thou liest not to men, but unto God. Oh fear and tremble least death should seize thee presently, and thou fall down and give up the ghost. In thy vow thou liest unto God, if thou dost not pay, because we must vow onely to God; for sacred vows are a part of Religious worship, which must be given onely unto God, Deut. 23.21. Eccles. 5.4. But in thy promises thou hast made to men, thou hast lied unto men; and all this doth aggravate thy neglect of coming up to thy vows and promises in time of sickness and fears.