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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.
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.
5. They are worse in regard of the Effects. The effects of bodily sickness, at the utmost, and the greatest, is but the death of the body; it brings the body to the dust, and the grave, it doth but separate from friends, and betwixt the body and the soul. But the effects of spiritual soul-sicknesses (except they be healed) are dreadful, and inconceivably great; great and dreadful in this world, but greater and more dreadful in the world to come; they cause Gods anger, they deprive the sinner of communion with God, they will separate betwixt God and him for ever, they will bring the soul to the place of Devils, and the torments of the damned.