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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 4
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.
1. 1YOU must be sensible that you are sick; he that doth not feel himself sick, will take no care about the means of health; it is those that are sensible of sickness that will value the skill of the Physician, and send to him, and desire his direction, Mat. 9.12. But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, they that be whole need not the Physician, but they that are sick.
- 1How to be cured of soul-sickness.
2. When you are sensible of your soul-sickness, you must apply your self to Christ, the great Physician of souls. It is Christ that cometh to those that feel themselves diseased, with healing under his wings, Mal. 4.2. It is he that healeth the broken-hearted, Luk. 4.18. Christ healeth us by his wounds, and cureth us by his stripes, Isa. 53.5. It is matter of admiration, and to many past belief, that applying of Medicines to a sword, should heal the wound made thereby; but this is above all reason, and beyond all dispute that the bleeding wounds of Christ will be healing, to the bleeding wounds of the sinner; Christs Golgotha, is our Gilead, and that you may ⟨p. 154⟩be the more encouraged to come to Christ when you feel your self sick; consider