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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 10
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.
1In Reading the Word of God: This would be better then Cards and Dice. But, in many Families the Bible lies upon the shelf all the week long, and scarce h•ve it in their hands but when they take it to go to Church, and many scarce then neither.
1In Reading the Word of God: This would be bet•er then Cards and Dice. But, in many Fam•l•es the Bible lies upon the shelfe all the week long, and scarce h•ve it in their hands but when they take it to go to Church, and many scarce then neither.
- 1Reading the Word of God.R•adi•g the Word of God.
God hath commanded you to acquaint your family with •he wo•d of God, and, how will you do it, if you never Read it to them, nor Discourse of it with them? Deut. 11.18. Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart, and in your soul, ⟨p. 185⟩and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontless between your eyes. Ver. 19. And ye shall teach them your Children, speaking of them, when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way; when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. View this Scripture well, (ye Masters of Families) and be ashamed of your neglect of reading the Scripture in your houses; you should talk of it at home and abroad, morning and night when your Family should be with you. You should read the Scripture to your Family for these Reasons: