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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.
Secondly, It is a voluntary removal; when one is dead, we make it matter of our choice to have him buried: Yea, we look upon it as a sore evil and great annoyance to have burial denied to our dead friends: So it is your choice to bury your sins, and the thoughts of not having them buried is a great trouble to you.
Thirdly, It is a perpetual removal; we bury our friends so, that we would not have them taken up again and brought into our house: So you bury sin, never to have it brought back to live again in your heart. One that hath buried his sin doth earnestly desire it might be removed out of the sight of God, by free pardon; out of the sight of his own eyes, by the evidence of the pardon; and out of the sight of others, by leading a contrary Conversation.
4. The Burial of sin includes the rotting of the old man in its grave, the mouldering of it, and the daily wasting of it, as dead Corps buried in the earth do consume and wast daily. Though a body buried doth not presently totally consume: Many years after the burial, if the grave be opened, you may find the bones and the skull; the relics of sin in the heart of a Child of God, are but as the bones and the skull, but the body of sin is destroyed.
4. The Burial of sin includes the rotting of the old man in its grave, the mouldring of it, and the daily wasting of it, as dead Corps buried in the earth do consume and wast daily. Though a body buried doth not presently totally consume: Many years after the burial, if the grave be opened, you may find the bones and the skull; the reliques of sin in the heart of a Child of God, are but as the bones and the skull, but the body of sin is destroyed.