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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.
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: 1 Sam. 2.23. And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for, I hear of your evil dealings by all this People. Vers. 24. Nay, my Sons, for it is no good report that I hear, ye make the Lords People to transgress. It is no good report! that was too good a word for so heinous wicked Works: it was an abominable thing that was reported by others, and committed ⟨p. 203⟩by his Sons: But, see what God saith to Ely, Vers. 29. Thou honourest thy Sons above me: and, God severely punished his Children for their vile offence; and the Father for his so cold reproof, as you may read in the following Verses.
2. Proportionably to their fault; Do not Correct a small offence over sharply, nor an hainous 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 Elyes sin, that he did not correct the hainous sin, and reprove the abominable practise of his Sons with greater severity: 1 Sam. 2.23. And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for, I hear of your evil dealings by all this People. Vers. 24. Nay, my Sons, for it is no good report that I hear, ye make the Lords People to transgress. It is no good report! that was too good a word for so hainous wicked Works: it was an abominable thing that was reported by others, and committed ⟨p. 203⟩by his Sons: But, see what God saith to Ely, Vers. 29. Thou honourest thy Sons above me: and, God severely punished his Children for their vile offence; and the Father for his so cold reproof, as you may read in the following Verses.