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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.
2. In respect of Self-denial. Believers must be no more taken with the things of this World (so ⟨p. 252⟩far as to draw them from God) than a person dead and buried and lying in his grave.
3. In respect of the Mortification of sin, and these two last are our duty; and of this last I would speak a little, following the Metaphor, in which there is some difference, and some agreement in the burial of our sin, and in common burial.
1The difference in these Respects.
- 12 Differences between the burial of our friends and our sins.
First, We bury our friends weeping for their death, desirous of their life, wishing, o• that this my Friend had not died; oh that I could have kept him in life: But we must bury our sin rejoicing, as those that are glad of its death; Not weeping because sin is dead, but that it once did live.