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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 5 › Section 1
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. 1Pride covered with humility; A proud person often appears in the shape of an humble man. In abasing of himself, discommending himself, that another may commend him, crying down himself, that another may cry him up; by dispraising himself he would force and wrest a commendation from other men: But if he discommend himself, do you discommend him too; if he say such a thing was meanly done, if you say, you think so too, a proud man cannot bear it; he cannot hear another say of him what he saith of himself: But this secret pride God seeth.
- 1Masked sins detected.
2. Hypocrisy masked with Zeal; Many seem to be forward in good ways, and zealous in good works; but Self is the end, 2 Kings 10.16. Come see my Zeal, &c.
2. Hypocrisie masked with Zeal; Many seem to be forward in good waies, and zealous in good works; but Self is the end, 2 Kings 10.16. Come see my Zeal, &c.
3. Secret love of the World, covered with pretence of care for their Family; Many have a cloak for the hiding of their covetousness; of which you read, 1 Thes. 2.5. For neither at any time used we flattering words, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness; this is seen by God.