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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 7: DIRECTION VII.
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.
1Hath God spared you in time of Pestilence, then now be dead to sin, kill your sin, and solemnize the funeral of your lusts; because you live after such a judgment, such a mercy doth oblige to the death and burial of sin. You are not buried with others in their graves, but you should be buried with Christ, Rom. 6.4. Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Ver. 6. Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. In which Scripture are set down these things. viz▪
1HAth God spared you in time of Pestilence, then now be dead to sin, kill your sin, and solemnize the funeral of your lusts; because you live after such a judgment, such a mercy doth oblige to the death and burial of sin. You are not buried with others in their graves, but you should be buried with Christ, Rom. 6.4. Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Ver. 6. Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. In which Scripture are set down these things. viz▪
- 1Since you live, after this Plague, be dead to sin, and be buried with Christ.
1. The parts of Sanctification, Mortification, Vivification. 2. The cause of our Sanctification, viz. communion with Christ in his Death, Burial, and Resurrection. 3. The Testimony and Pledge of it, our Baptism. 4. The growth and progress of Mortification; we should aim at the total destruction of the body of sin, by the Crucifying, Destroying, and Burial of sin.