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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
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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.
4. They are worse, because they are more numerous; there is more diseases in the soul than in the body. If the body be diseased in one part, it may be well in all the rest; if in more, yet not in all; if in all, yet your case is not so bad: But there is no sinner but is diseased in every part; there are spiritual distempers in all the faculties and powers of the soul, in the Understanding, Will, Affections, Conscience, Memory, Fantasy: In the members of the body, no part free: Nay there are many spiritual diseases in every faculty: in the Understanding, there are many; ignorance, error, &c. in the Will many, stubbornness, choosing the Creature and sin, before God, &c. In every affection of the soul there are swarms of sin: In the heart there are innumerable distempers, evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, blasphemies, false witness, Ma•. 15.19. Spiritual diseases naturally be all in every man, and be in every part of every man.
4. They are worse, because they are more numerous; there is more diseases in the soul than in the body. If the body be diseased in one part, it may be well in all the rest; if in more, yet not in all; if in all, yet your case is not so bad: But there is no sinner but is diseased in every part; there are spiritual distempers in all the faculties and powers of the soul, in the Understanding, Will, Affections, Conscience, Memory, Phantasie: In the members of the body, no part free: Nay there are many spiritual diseases in every faculty: in the Understanding, there are many; ignorance, errour, &c. in the Will many, stubbornness, choosing the Creature and sin, before God, &c. In every affection of the soul there are swarms of sin: In the heart there are innumerable distempers, evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, blasphemies, false witness, Ma. 15.19. Spiritual diseases naturally be all in every man, and be in every part of every man.