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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; 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 D••ling, an •he was wanting in correcting of him, and he Rebelled before he died, and usurped the Kingdom before his Fathers death: 1 King. 1.5. Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be King; and he prepared his Horsemen and Chariots, and fifty Men to run before him. Vers. 6. And his Father had not displeased him at any time, in saying, Why hast thou done so? — Too much indulgence will make undutiful and disobedient Children.
1. Timelily; a young Twigg is flexible, and easie to be bent; break them of wicked Words and W•ies betimes, or else they may break your heart when they are bigger. Adonijah was Davids D••ling, an •he was wanting in correcting of him, and he Rebelled before he died, and usurped the Kingdom before his Fathers death: 1 King. 1.5. Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be King; and he prepared his Horsmen and Chariots, and fifty Men to run before him. Vers. 6. And his Father had not displeased him at any time, in saying, Why hast thou done so? — Too much indulgence will make undutiful and disobedient Children.
2. Proportionably to their fault; Do not Correct a small offence over sharply, nor an heinous sin too slightly; if you are too severe for a small offence, they will hate you: if you are too indulgent in a great offence, they will despise you. This was Eli's sin, that he did not correct the heinous sin, and reprove the abominable practise of his Sons with greater severity: