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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.
1Secret sins do provoke God as well as open sins; God is not like the sinner that hath better thoughts of sin, because it is secret: The openness of sin might add something to the eclipsing of Gods glory, and to Gods dishonour, but it addeth nothing to Gods hatred of sin, because Gods hatred to sin, as sin, is infinite.
- 1Secret sins provoke God
1Secret sins will grieve the Spirit of God; And causeth him to withhold his influences from thy heart, and to withdraw his presence from thy soul. As,
- 1And grieve the Spirit.
1. Secret sins will cause the Spirit of God to withdraw his witnessing presence, and to suspend his testimony. 2. They will cause him to withdraw his comforting presence, that thou shalt not have those joys that thou wast use to find when thou wast more careful to watch against secret sins. 3. They will cause him to withdraw his ⟨p. 228⟩quickening presence, that thy heart will be left more dead, and more dull, and thy affections will be more flat and cold. 4. They will cause him to withdraw his Assisting presence; that thou shalt not be so able to perform duty, to resist temptation, to bear affliction. Thus secret sins will make you great losers by grieving and quenching the Spirit of God.