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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 16
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. Timelily, before they are accustomed to evil; they are born in natural hardness, and, by frequent acts of wickedness they will contract habitual hardness; and then, if God clap upon their hearts judicial hardness, your Children are undone for ever: Children before they can go, can run from God; and, before they can speak plainly, can speak wickedly: Teach them not to be proud of their fine Clothes; teach them not Revenge, by giving you a stroke to beat others; these be the buddings of Pride and Revenge in little Infants.
1. Timelily, before they are accustomed to evil; they are born in natural hardness, and, by frequent acts of wickedness they will contract habitual hardness; and then, if God clap upon their hearts judicial hardness, your Children are undone for ever: Children before they can goe, can run from God; and, before they can speak plainly, can speak wickedly: Teach them not to be proud of their fine Clothes; teach them not Revenge, by giving you a stroak to beat others; these be the buddings of Pride and Revenge in little Infants.
2. Instruct them frequently; They are apt to learn evil, but backward to learn any thing that is good: There must be Line upon Line, Deut. 6. 6, 7. You must whet the things you speak unto them, that they may pierce their hearts; frequently inculcate the same things upon them, and instil the knowledge of God into them by little and little.
2. Instruct them frequently; They are apt to learn evil, but backward to learn any thing that is good: There must be Line upon Line, Deut. 6. 6, 7. You must whet the things you speak unto them, that they may pierce their hearts; frequently inculcate the same things upon them, and instil the knowledg of God into them by little and little.