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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 4 › 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.
Ministers diligence in Preaching the Word (which, such should be awakened to, much more by Gods late Providence) is pointed at by God, in those several Names, and Appellations; with which, they, and their Work, is Metaphorically set forth, as they are, 11. Labourers. Mat. 9.38. Therefore must not loiter, but should work as day-labourers. 2. Builders, 1 Cor. 3.10. Must repair Gods Buildings. 3. Husbandmen, 1 Cor. 3.9. Must Plough up the fallow ground, that they sow not among thorns: they are Gods harvest-Men, and that is hard work. 4. Watchmen, Ezek. 33.7. Must see the danger, and endure the cold, and give warning. 5. Stewards, 1 Cor. 4.1, 2. Must deal to every one their portion. 6. Fathers, 1 Cor. 4.15. 1 Thes. 2.11. In begetting, and bringing up Spiritual Children for God. 7. Guides, Rom. 2.19. Must direct lost Men into their way. 8. Nurses, 1 Thes. 2.7. Must seed the Babes in Christ. 9. Physicians, Jer. 13.12, 13. Must heal the Spiritual Sickness of Mens Souls. 10. Ambassadors, 2 Cor. 5.20. Must Parley with Sinners, to make Peace betwixt God and them.
Ministers diligence in Preaching the Word (which, such should be awakened to, much more by Gods late Providence) is pointed at by God, in those several Names, and Appellations; with which, they, and their Work, is Metaphorically set forth, as they are,