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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.
11. 1This will encourage the devil to more frequent tempting of thee: For if by temptation he can prevail with thee to do that which is contrary to thy resolution; what hopes will he have to draw thee into sin, against which thou hast made no such particular resolution? If he overcome thee where thou art strongest, what spoil will he make upon thee where thou art weakest? It is a great advantage we give unto the devil, when we sin against our resolutions.
- 1It encourageth the devil to tempt.
12. 1This will be a great provocation unto God, when thou dost sin, not only against his Precepts, but against thy own purpose; not only against the obligations he layeth upon thy soul by Mercy and Afflictions, but against the Obligations thou layest upon thy self by thy Purposes and Resolutions: And in thy Affliction and fears didst thou not apprehend God to be exceedingly provoked, but thou must after he hath preserved, recovered thee, go on, to provoke him more.
12. 1This will be a great provocation unto God, when thou dost sin, not only against his Precepts, but against thy own purpose; not only against the obligations he layeth upon thy soul by Mercy and Afflictions, but against the Obligations thou layst upon thy self by thy Purposes and Resolutions: And in thy Affliction and fears didst thou not apprehend God to be exceedingly provoked, but thou must after he hath preserved, recovered thee, go on, to provoke him more.
- 1It provoketh God.