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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.
10. 1What if thou hadst dyed in thy affliction, thou hadst gone to hell upon a mistake, and perished for ever, when yet thou hadst some hope (though upon false grounds) that thy condition was good, and that thou shouldest have obtained mercy: When thou wast sick or in danger, thou thoughtest thy condition was good, because thou foundest thy heart to resolve to forsake thy sin, and purpose to close with the closest ways of holiness, but if thou hadst then dyed, thou wouldest without doubt have been eternally damned, because thy resolutions were not penitential resolutions, as appears by the fruit of them, in my returning to thy sin again, and that thou didst not indeed love God, and his holy ways, for if thou hadst thou wouldest nor so soon, no, never after turned from them in the general course of thy conversation.
10. 1What if thou hadst dyed in thy affliction, thou hadst gone to hell upon a mistake, and perished for ever, when yet thou hadst some hope (though upon false grounds) that thy condition was good, and that thou shouldest have obtained mercy: When thou wast sick or in danger, thou thoughtest thy condition was good, because thou foundest thy heart to resolve to forsake thy sin, and purpose to close with the closest wayes of holiness, but if thou hadst then dyed, thou wouldest without doubt have been eternally damned, because thy resolutions were not penitential resolutions, as appears by the fruit of them, in my returning to thy sin again, and that thou didst not indeed love God, and his holy ways, for if thou hadst thou wouldest nor so soon, no, never after turned from them in the general course of thy conversation.
- 1If thou hadst dyed in thy sickness thou hadst been damned.
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