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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.
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 ⟨p. 137⟩from sickness? Hath God given you your life from the very borders of the grave? and is this the fruit you return to God, not only not to be so good as you ought to be, but not so careful as you purposed to be? Or do you give thanks to God with your mouth that God hath kept you from the grave, and contradict it in your life? Your oral thanksgiving is nothing without practical thanks doing: Or do you praise God in words and dishonour him in your works, and do your lips acknowledge you are engaged to God for his protecting providence, and do you so live as if you had received no such mercy from him, and that your dependence were not now upon him? Is this your thanks to God to break your word with him?
7. 1This will be great unthankefulness 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 mee; 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