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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 6 › Section 1
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.
IV. 1Should not you be dead to, and take heed of resting in the wisdom of the World; in the attainment only of Humane Learning; after you have seen the Learned die as the Ignorant; and the Wise Man as the Fool: Humane Learning is more desirable than Riches and Honours, and the Pleasures of this World; but, yet it is not to be acquiesced in, without the knowledge of God in Christ. Notions in Learning will never deliver from the Torments of Hell: many learned sinners have gone to eternal Misery, and their torments there are greater than the torments of the Ignorant, and unlearned: the vanity of the wisdom of this World, compared with the knowledge of Christ, appears, in that
IV. 1Should not you be dead to, and take heed of resting in the wisdom of the World; in the attainment onely of Humane Learning; after you have seen the Learned die as the Ignorant; and the Wise Man as the Fool: Humane Learning is more desirable than Riches and Honours, and the Pleas•res of this World; but, yet it is not to be acquiesced in, without the knowledg of God in Christ. Notions in Learning will never deliver from the Torments of Hell: many learned sinners have gone to eternal Misery, and their torments there are greater than the torments of the Ignorant, and unlearned: the vanity of the wisdom of this World, compared with the knowledge of Christ, appeares, in that
- 1To the wisdom of the World.
1. It cannot redress the sinfulness of the thoughts, nor help against the vanity of the mind: The wise and learned Heathens became vain in their imaginations, Rom. 1.21.