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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 2
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. Soul-sicknesses and spiritual Judgements upon mens hearts are Signs of greater wrath than bodily sicknesses are. You may be sick of the Plague, and yet God may love you; you may have bodily afflictions, and God may be at peace with you, and because he loves you, he may afflict you. But spiritual Judgements, as judicial hardness, blindness, are signs of Gods anger, yea his sorest displeasure, yea (which is more) they are signs of Gods Hatred to such a man that lieth under them. Now that which doth always argue Hatred in God to a sinner, is worse than those things that might proceed barely from his Anger, and sometimes from his Love: God loathes and abhors that man, the plague of whose heart is not at all cured.
2. Soul-sicknesses and spiritual Judgements upon mens hearts are Signs of greater wrath than bodily sicknesses are. You may be sick of the Plague, and yet God may love you; you may have bodily afflictions, and God may be at peace with you, and because he loves you, he may afflict you. But spiritual Judgements, as judicial hardness, blindness, are signs of Gods anger, yea his sorest displeasure, yea (which is more) they are signs of Gods Hatred to such a man that lyeth under them. Now that which doth alwayes argue Hatred in God to a sinner, is worse than those things that might proceed barely from his Anger, and sometimes from his Love: God loathes and abhorres that man, the plague of whose heart is not at all cured.
3. Spiritual Judgements and soul-sicknesses ⟨p. 147⟩are greater evils than temporal and corporal sicknesses are, because they be spiritual, and have the heart and soul for their seat and subject: As mercies are better that are spiritual, and that are soul mercies, so Judgments and sicknesses spiritual are the greater evils, because they are the disease of the better and more noble part of man; that which doth corrupt the soul, must be worse than that which doth corrupt the body, by how much the soul is more excellent than the body.