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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 3 › Section 1
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.
2. Sickness and diseases do abate the strength and activity of the body. So sin doth weaken the soul, and all the faculties thereof, and doth disable it in all its actings to, and for God.
3. Sickness and diseases often fill the body full of pain, aches, and sores, making men to cry out, Oh my head, and oh my heart, and oh my bowels, I am pained, I am pained: So sin doth fill the soul full of racking fears, and perplexing torments and doubts, and sometimes make some sinners cry out, I am undone, I am undone, I am damned, I am damned.
4. Some diseases do stupefy and make men insensible, and those are the worst. So sin sometimes makes some sinners stupid and unsensible of their misery and danger.
4. Some diseases do stupifie and make men insensible, and those are the worst. So sin sometimes makes some sinners stupid and unsensible of their misery and danger.