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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.
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 ⟨p. 248⟩in all the Mines of the most precious things in Nature: and, in your practical judgment do account them but dung and dross in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.
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 Choisest and the Chiefest things that are therein; but, do see more real worth in God and Christ, and one dram of Grace; then ⟨p. 248⟩in all the Mines of the most precious things in Nature: and, in your practical judgment do account them but dung and dross in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1Signs of a Man that is dead to the world▪Signes of a Man that is dead to the world▪