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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 6
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.
3. Inward-heart-Pride in public duties is a secret thing: A Man may be full of self-loathing-expressions, and of humble gestures, and yet his heart might be lifted up with spiritual pride, and self admirations, and towering thoughts of his own worth and excellency, and suitableness and freedom of expression, and a by-stander cannot perceive it.
3. Inward-heart-Pride in publick duties is a secret thing: A Man may be full of self-loathing-expressions, and of humble gestures, and yet his heart might be lifted up with spiritual pride, and self admirations, and towring thoughts of his own worth and excellency, and suitableness and freedom of expression, and a by-stander cannot perceive it.
4. Dullness and deadness of heart in duty is a secret thing: A Man might h•ve lively expressions in public Prayers, and seeming warmth of affection, and such things that might affect and warm the hearts of others; and yet his own heart be dull and lukewarm, yea qui•e cold in that duty.
4. Dulness and deadness of heart in duty is a secret thing: A Man might h•ve lively expressions in publick Prayers, and seeming warmth of affection, and such things that might affect and warm the hearts of others; and yet his own heart be dull and lukewarm, yea qui•e cold in that duty.
5. Wandering thoughts, in public duties, are secret things: A man may use the Name of God, and the Attributes of God, and yet his thoughts may be upon something else: others may see you engaged in the duty, and see your outward gestures, but are strangers to the secret wanderings of your mind.