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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.
1.1 Because the Word of God is the spiritual food of the souls in your Family. It is the bread of Life. It is milk for the nourishing of their souls, 1 Pet. 2.2. It is to be preferred above their necessary food, Job 23.12. Now will you give them bread for their bodies, and deny them bread for their souls? Their souls can no more live without spiritual food, than their bodies can without corporal. Take heed you deny not bread to your children and servants souls.
- 14 Reasons for reading Scripture in Families.
2. Because the Word of God is the spiritual Armour for the preserving your Family from being robbed by your spiritual Enemies, the Devil, Sin, and the World; You will have some weapon in your house to defend your self from thieves. Why, the Devil will play the thief in your house, and will steal away the souls of your Children, and will steal away the souls of your Servants, and will you not put so much as a Weapon into their hands to defend themselves? Your Children and Servants will be stolen away by the ⟨p. 186⟩Spirits, if you arm them not with the Word of God, which is the Sword of the Spirit, Eph. 6.17.
2. Because the Word of God is the spiritual Armour for the preserving your Family from being robbed by your spiritual Enemies, the Devil, Sin, and the World; You will have some weapon in your house to defend your self f•om thieves. Why, the Devil will play the thief in your house, and will steal away the souls of your Children, and will steal away the souls of your Servants, and will you not put so much as a Weapon into their hands to defend themselves? Your Children and Servants will be stollen away by the