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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 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.
SECT. III.
III. How may a man know whether he be healed of Soul-sickness?
The cure of these distempers are but partial, yet so far are they healed, that they shall not be the death of the soul. The cure will not be perfect till we die. Death (we say) cures all distempers, and so it doth those of the soul. There is a double wound that sin doth make, there is the wound that doth certainly destroy the soul, by hindering it from salvation and eternal life, and there is the wound that destroys the peace and comfort of the soul. So there is a double Cure, which Christ doth work, the one for the safety and happiness of the Soul, the other for the peace and comfort of the Soul. The first of these we enquire after.
THe cure of these distempers are but partial, yet so far are they healed, that they shall not be the death of the soul. The cure will not be perfect till we die. Death (we say) cures all distempers, and so it doth those of the soul. There is a double wound that sin doth make, there is the wound that doth certainly destroy the soul, by hindring it from salvation and eternal life, and there is the wound that destroyes the peace and comfort of the soul. So there is a double Cure, which Christ doth work, the one for the safety and happiness of the Soul, the other for the peace and comfort of the Soul. The first of these we enquire after.