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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 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.
5. 1Get, and increase in uprightness of heart; the more of sincerity, the less in secret sinning. Hypocrisy is consistent with a constant course of secret sin, but sincerity of heart doth diminish the acts and habits of sin.
5. 1Get, and increase in uprightness of heart; the more of sincerity, the less in secret sinning. Hypocrisie is consistent with a constant course of secret sin, but sincerity of heart doth diminish the acts and habits of sin.
- 1Uprightness of heart.
6.1 Make it your great design to have the approbation of God: He that doth hunt after the commendation of Men, will be good when Men do see him; but, he that seeks for the approbation of God, endeavours to be good at all times, and in all places: Rom. 2.29. But, he is a Jew, which is one inwardly, and Circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, and not in the Letter, whose praise is not of Men, but of God. 2 Tim. 2.15. Study to show thy self approved unto God.
6.1 Make it your great design to have the approbation of God: He that doth hunt after the commendation of Men, will be good when Men do see him; but, he that seekes for the approbation of God, endeavours to be good at all times, and in all places: