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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.
3. Instruct them affectionately; Let them perceive (when more grown up) that they are matters of Weight and Moment, that you speak to them about: When you speak of Heaven and Hell, of God and Sin, let them see that your hearts are affected with what you say.
1Secondly, In Correcting of them for the evil of Sin: He that spares the Rod spoils the Child: better you correct them here, than God damn them ⟨p. 202⟩hereafter: The Rod is as needful for your Children as their Food; Prov. 22.15. Folly is bound in the heart of a Child, the Rod of Correction shall drive it far from him. Do this,
1Secondly, In Correcting of them for the evil of Sin: He that spares the Rod spoiles the Childe: better you correct them here, than God damne them ⟨p. 202⟩hereafter: The Rod is as needful for your Children as their Food; Prov. 22.15. Folly is bound in the heart of a Childe, the Rod of Correction shall drive it far from him. Do this,
- 1Correction.
1. Timelily; a young Twig is flexible, and easy to be bent; break them of wicked Words and Ways betimes, or else they may break your heart when they are bigger. Adonijah was Davids Dling, an he was wanting in correcting of him, and he Rebelled before he died, and usurped the Kingdom before his Fathers death: