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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 will harden thy heart, and make thee more prone to commit open sins. They will strengthen the evil habit of sin, and make thee more incline to visible transgressions, and increase the propensity ⟨p. 230⟩of thy heart to greater evils. Thus Judas giving way to secret covetousness did ripen the Inclination of his heart more and more to betray his Master.
- 1Do harden.
1Secret sins will stop the Communications of Gods secrets to thee; There are some secrets of God, which he doth not communicate to any man in this life, Deut. 29.29. Secret things belong to the Lord our God: but things revealed belong to us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this Law. But there are some secrets of God that he doth reveal unto his people, and to those that make conscience of secret sins, Prov. 3.32. But his secret is with the righteous. Psal. 25.14. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his Covenant. The Revealed things of the Gospel are secret things to wicked men; the Gospel is hid to them, 2 Cor. 4.4. Regeneration is a secret to them. Faith in Christ is • secret to them. The joys of the Spirit, and the comforts of the Holy Ghost are things hidden from them. But if you dare not allow your self in secret sinning, you shall have many secret Intimations of the love of God unto your soul; many secret illapses of his Spirit into your heart.