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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 2
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.
1TO keep you from secret sins consider, That secrecy in sinning is no security to the sinner; This is a consequent of the former, because God seeth you in secret, therefore you are not safe, though your sin be secret. You may secure your credit and reputation awhile, by keeping your sin secret from men, but not your happiness and salvation. While your sin is secret you may not be reproached for it by men, but you shall be damned for it by God, if it be allowed and not sincerely repented of. Many shall be openly damned for secret sins. Read Psal. 64. throughout.
- 1Secrecy is no security.Secresie is no security.
1This will be a notable discovery of the sincerity of thy heart, if thou darest not allow thy self in secret sins. An Hypocrites greatest care is conversant about things visible and manifest, viz. His Conversation, Profession, or Open transgressions, these are visible.
- 1It is a sign of sincerity.
But the things that are secret and hid from the eyes of men, in those he is careless and negligent. But a true child of God, though he is not careless of his conversation, yet he is especially mindful of his affections, and of the secret ⟨p. 226⟩