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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.
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.
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 aime at the total destruction of the body of sin, by the Crucifying, Destroying, and Burial of sin.
You have seen the death of thousands, and you have seen the Burial of thousands, to all these add one more Funeral, and that is the Funeral of your sins. Do you out-live this Judgment, and shall your sins do so too? God forbid. This would be to live altogether unanswerably to so great a mercy. You live, but your sins should be dead in you, and you unto your sins, Rom. 6.11. Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin: but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Though you live, yet must you be buried.
Now Believers are buried in three respects:1
- 1Believers are buried in 3. respects.