A36329:472
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 9
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5. If you neglect your duty herein, you will be guilty of the blood of the Souls of those that die in your family, and are damned for ever: you ⟨p. 181⟩will be bloody Butchers to the souls of your Children and Servants: God hath committed the care of their souls (in great measure) unto you, and, can you discharge your trust that God hath reposed in you, in the total neglect of your duty herein? hath not God charged you in the fourth Commandment, that neither you your self should profane his day, and that you should see that neither your sons nor daughters, neither your men-servants, nor maid-servants should profane it; and, if they do, will not God require this at your hand?
5. If you neglect your duty herein, you will be guilty of the blood of the Soules of those that die in your family, and are damned for ever: you ⟨p. 181⟩will be bloody Butchers to the soules of your Children and Servants: God hath committed the care of their soules (in great measure) unto you, and, can you discharge your trust that God hath reposed in you, in the total neglect of your duty herein? hath not God charged you in the fourth Commandment, that neither you your self should prophane his day, and that you should see that neither your sons nor daughters, neither your men-servants, nor maid-servants should prophane it; and, if they do, will not God require this at your hand?
6. The total neglect of Family-Worship will be • flat denying God to be the God of your family; that you take not God to be the Master of your family: would not you say, That your Servants deny you to be their Master, if they deny their Service to you? and, can you say, That God is the God of your house, if you, in your house do not Worship him? Mal. 1.6. A son honoureth his Father, and a servant his Master; if then I be a Father, where is mine honour? and if I be a Master, where is my Fear? — if your Family disown God, God will disown your Family; and, if God disown and cast you off, will not your family be a miserable family?