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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 4
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.
I. Keep up a constant course of secret Duties: Be much with God when you are alone: Let not all your Religion lie without doors: especially be much in the Practise of these four Duties in secret.
I. Keep up a constant course of secret Duties: Be much with God when you are alone: Let not all your Religion lie without doores: especially be much in the Practise of these four Duties in secret.
1. Be much in secret Prayer: This hath been the practice of the holy Men of God, so Jacob, Gen. 32.24. And Jacob was left alone: and there wrestled a Man with him, while the breaking of the day. In this you have the Example of Christ himself, who was much in secret Prayer, Ma•. 14.23. And when he had sent the Multitudes away, he went up into a Mountain apart to Pray, and when the evening w•s come he was there alone. You have some secret burdens upon your heart, you have some secret and hidden workings of sin in your soul, which is not convenient for you to express in the hearing of others; take time then to do this when you are alone in secret: You have the command of Christ also for this secret duty, as well as his practise and example, Mat. 6.6.
1. Be much in secret Prayer: This hath been the practice of the holy Men of God, so Jacob, Gen. 32.24. And Jacob was left alone: and there wrastled a Man with him, while the breaking of the day. In this you have the Example of Christ himself, who was much in secret Prayer, Ma•. 14.23. And when he had sent the Multitudes away, he went up into a Mountain apart to Pray, and when the evening w•s come he was there alone. You have some secret burdens upon your heart, you have some secret and hidden workings of sin in your soul, which is not convenient for you to express in the hearing of others; take time then to do this when you are alone in secret: You have the command of Christ also for this secret duty, as well as his practise and example,