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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 12
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.
SECT. XII.
Secondly, If you will live in some measure answerably to so great a mercy, as Preservation from death in a time of great Mortality, is, then fill up the duties of your particular Relation wherein you stand. Relative sins are very offensive unto God, and a great scandal to Religion. ⟨p. 192⟩The fi•st of these Relations in a Family is,
SEcondly, If you will live in some measure answerably to so great a mercy, as Preservation from death in a time of great Mortalitie, is, then fill up the duties of your particular Relation wherein you stand. Relative sins are very offensive unto God, and a great scandal to Religion. ⟨p. 192⟩The fi•st of these Relations in a Family is,
1First, Conjugal, betwixt Husband and Wife; and the great duty incumbent upon them is mutual love, in which many are deficient, and many are excessive, it being hard for such to let out their affections one to another so much as God commands, and no more than God allows; and both these extremes will terrify conscience when such come to dye. And this sin is more usually seen when death hath broken this Relation, than while God continueth them together; the Survivor then seeth he did not love his Wife, and the Wife, her Husband, with that degree of love as that Relation called for, or with a greater degree than was pleasing unto God, when the love of this Relation did diminish the love they should have to God: And how many breaches hath God made in this Relation to punish the sin of both extremes? It may be thy love was Immoderate, and therefore God hath taken thy Relation from thee: Or it may be thy love was deficient, and therefore God hath taken thy Relation from thee. When thou wst sick, and thou thoughtest thou shouldest have died, did not thy Conscience then accuse thee for one of these in thy Relation? And yet hath God spared thee and thy Wife, or thee and thy Husband, then what conscience did reproach thee for in this particular, if thou wouldst answer Gods mercy in sparing of thee, let this be reformed. There are many this day may be lamenting not so much the loss of this Relation, as that they did not walk suitably in this Relation while they were in