A36329:631
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 3
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. Fill your mind with actual, believing thoughts of Gods all-seeing eye. When you are tempted to sin in secret, consider God seeth you: ⟨p. 232⟩All the thoughts of your heart, and all the motions of your affections are known to him, 2 Cor. 4.2. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending our selves to every mans conscience in the sight of God. Psal. 139.11. If I say the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Ver. 12. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. It is the Atheism and Infidelity of mens hearts that encourageth them to sin, because it is secret.
2. 1Firmly believe, and often think of the judgement to come. Then will God make manifest every secret thing; The thoughts of the heart shall then be revealed. If thou wouldst not have thy secret sin produced at the last day, and published before all the world, do not commit i•, […] 12.14. For God shall bring every work into •dgmen•, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Rom. 2.16. In the day w• God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel. 1 Cor. 4.5. Therefore •udge working before the time, until the Lord come, who both shall bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then shall every man have praise of God.