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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 2
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.
SECTION II.
But, that you may know, whether you (yet living) are dead to the things of this world, I shall give you this general Character, viz.
BUt, that you may know, whether you (yet living) are dead to the things of this world, I shall give you this general Character, viz.
1If you carry your self towards the world, as those that are dead to God, do carry themselves towards God, then are you dead unto the world: and, this general is resolved into these particulars.
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1. 1Those that are dead to God, they see no real excellency in God and Christ; but they see something more in the things of the world: they see more excellency in their Gold and Silver; in their Profits and Preferments; in their Pleasures and Delights: so, if you are dead to the world, you do not admire the Choicest and the Chiefest things that are therein; but, do see more real worth in God and Christ, and one dram of Grace; then