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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 6
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.
SECTION VI.
1Ministers, whom God hath spared from the Grave, in th• time of great Morality, should improve this Mercy in the manner of their holy Conversation; i• […] Mens Lives should be the Application of their Doctrine, should press to Holiness, and live shortly; press the People to Mortification of Sin, and Self-denial, and be Examples to the People in this, else the People will not believe that they think what they say, if they do not in some measure Live as they say: Drunkards will not believe that that Minister is ⟨p. 175⟩in good earnest, in telling them, that Drunkards shall be damned, if he be one himself. Look therefore to your Life, and copy out that pressed upon you, 1 Tim. 4.12. Let no Man despise thy youth but be thou an example of believers, in Word, in Conversation, in Charity, in Spirit, in Faith, in Purity. 1 Tim. 3.2. For a Bishop must be blameless, the Husband of one Wife▪ sober, vigilant, of good behaviour; a lover of Hospitality, apt to Teach. Vers. 3. Not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of filthy lucre.
1MInisters, whom God hath spared from the Grave, in th• time of great Morrality, should improve this Mercy in the manner of their holy Conversation; i Mens Lives should be the Application of their Doctrine, should press to Holiness, and live shotly; press the People to Mortification of Sin, and Self-denial, and be Examples to the People in this, else the People will not believe that they think what they say, if they do not in some measure Live as they say: Drunkards will not believe that that Minister is