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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.
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 ⟨p. 186⟩Spirits, if you arm them not with the Word of God, which is the Sword of the Spirit, Eph. 6.17.
3. Because the more you read the Word of God to them, the better they will be to you, and the better perform the duties of their Relation: You complain of disobedient Children, why do not you read the Scripture to them more, to teach them that God requires them to be obedient to you? You complain of bad Servants, why do not you then read the Word of God to them more, that they may know their duty better by reading the Scripture to them? Make them but good Christians, and then they dare not, but be good Children, and good Servants.