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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 5
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.
2. Increase your love to Christ, who hath healed the distempers of your heart; will you not love that man that saved your life? and will you ⟨p. 159⟩not love that Lord, that saved your souls? especially when you consider the manner and means of your cure. That he did it freely, and that with a Medicine of his own blood, other Physicians make you Medicines of other things, but Christ of his own heart blood; he died that you might live, and he was pierced, that you may be spared.
2. Encrease your love to Christ, who hath healed the distempers of your heart; will you not love that man that saved your life? and will you ⟨p. 159⟩not love that Lord, that saved your souls? especially when you consider the manner and means of your cure. That he did it freely, and that with a Medicine of his own blood, other Physicians make you Medicines of other things, but Christ of his own heart blood; he died that you might live, and he was peirced, that you may be spared.
3. If you are healed, take heed of falling into a relapse, take heed of wounding your soul after healing; if you are healed go away and sin no more, least a worse thing come unto you, Joh. 8.11.
4. If you are healed, direct others to the same Physician, you do so to your acquaintance, that are sick of the same disease that you have been, you tell them such a man is able and skilful, and he hath cured the same disease in you, and counsel and persuade them to go to him; do so in this case; you have a friend, a neighbour, a relation in a sinful state: Oh speak to them to go to Christ. Dost thou hear any soul complaining, alas my wound it is incurable, and my sorrow it is intolerable, my heart is sick, my soul is full of running sores; and I pray, but have no help, and I hear, but have no cure; now direct such a distressed sinner unto Christ, and from your own experience encourage him to hasten unto Christ, from whom you have found such healing virtue.