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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 13
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.
BUT more particularly I shall speak to three things: ⟨p. 194⟩What manner of love is this Why they should have this Wherein they should manifest this love one to another.
If you will improve this mercy God hath vouchsafed you, your love must have these properties.
If you will improve this mercie God hath vouchsafed you, your love must have these properties.
1. 1It must be a Superlative love, that is in respect of all sublunary things; though your love to God and Christ must be more than your love one to another, else it doth sinfully exceed, for if any loveth Father or Mother, Husband or Wife, more than Christ, he is not worthy of him, yet in respect of all other persons and things in this world, it must be more, else it is sinfully deficient; A man must love his Wife above all other persons, above his Estate, or whatsoever is dear unto him in this world, and so the Wife. Thus Christ loveth his Church, and a believing soul, above all other persons, and the Church reciprocally loves Christ above all other things in the world.
1. 1It must be a Superlative love, that is in respect of all sublunarie things; though your love to God and Christ must be more than your love one to another, else it doth sinfully exceed, for if any loveth Father or Mother, Husband or Wife, more than Christ, he is not worthie of him, yet in respect of all other persons and things in this world, it must be more, else it is sinfully deficient; A man must love his Wife above all other persons, above his Estate, or whatsoever is dear unto him in this world, and so the Wife. Thus Christ loveth his Church, and a believing soul, above all other persons, and the Church reciprocallie loves Christ above all other things in the world.