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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.
4. If you would be healed, you must come to Christs-Hospital, i. e. unto Christs Ordinances, and this you may do; if you cannot come to Christ, yet you may come unto his Ordinances, you may come and hear, you may attend at the pools side, and at length he might come, and put you into the healing waters, Mat. 21.14. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them, Psal. 107.20. He sent his word and healed them.
4. If you would be healed, you must come to Christs-Hospital, i. e. unto Christs Ordinances, and this you may do; if you cannot come to Christ, yet you may come unto his Ordinances, you may come and hear, you may attend at the pools side, and at length he might come, and put you into the healing waters, Mat. 21.14. And the blinde and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them, Psal. 107.20. He sent his word and healed them.
5. If you would be healed of your soul-sickness, you must follow the directions and prescriptions of Christ your spiritual Physician. If you be sick, and the Physician tell you what you must do, and prescribe you means, and you set them in your window, or let them stand upon your table, and do not do as he prescribes, you may dye of your disease; you must observe his advise, for the time, when, and for the ⟨p. 157⟩quantity, how much you must take, or else your distemper will abide, yea and increase; Christ will tell you what you must do, and if you follow his directions, your soul shall recover and be saved.