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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.
6. 1This will make death terrible indeed unto thee, when it comes in good earnest to seize upon thee, and then thou shalt find that the same purposes, and resolutions will not quiet thee, when in former sickness thou hast had them, and in after recovery thou hast neglected to perform them. Thy last sickness will come, and death at last will come, and then thou wilt remember what vows thou hast made, and how thou didst not pay them unto God, how thou hast resolved against sin and a wicked life, but hast made no conscience of living answerable unto them, and this will make thee much afraid to dye.
6. 1This will make death terrible indeed unto thee, when it comes in good earnest to seize upon thee, and then thou shalt finde that the same purposes, and resolutions will not quiet thee, when in former sickness thou hast had them, and in after recovery thou hast neglected to perform them. Thy last sickness will come, and death at last will come, and then thou wilt remember what vows thou hast made, and how thou didst not pay them unto God, how thou hast resolved against sin and a wicked life, but hast made no conscience of living answerable unto them, and this will make thee much afraid to dye.
- 1It will make death terrible.
7. 1This will be great unthankfulness unto God for his preservation from, or restoration out of sickness: To God belong the issues from death, but you deny it to him. When Hezekiah was restored from his sickness (its thought the plague) he was thankful unto God for his restoration, Isa. 28.19. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I d this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth. Vers. 20. The Lord was ready to save me; therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments, all the days of our life, in the house of the Lord. And is this to give thanks to God for preservation, for restoration