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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 8: DIRECTION VIII.
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.
DIRECTION VIII.
1Hath God spared you in the time of Plague, that you yet remain among the Living? If you would improve this mercy, then Live to God, and walk in newness of Life. God hath not spared you that you should live to your self, or to the flesh, or that you should walk in your old courses: But your duty is now to live to God, and to lead a new Conversation. God hath brought you to the borders of the grave, and to the very confines of another world, and shaked you over the grave, and hath recovered and restored you, and hath as it were given you a new life, by reprieving you from the gates of death when you were so near unto it, Rom. 6.4. That like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we should walk in newness of life; and the equipollent phrases of this new life are, To walk with, before, and after God. To walk after the Spirit, Rom. 8.1. To serve God in newness of spirit, Rom. 7.6. To walk as children of light, Eph. 5.8. To walk in the ways of God, Psal. 119.3. To walk circumspectly, Eph. 5.16.
1HAth God spared you in the time of Plague, that you yet remain among the Living? If you would improve this mercie, then Live to God, and walk in newness of Life. God hath not spared you that you should live to your self, or to the flesh, or that you should walk in your old courses: But your duty is now to live to God, and to lead a new Conversation. God hath brought you to the borders of the grave, and to the very confines of another world, and shaked you over the grave, and hath recovered and restored you, and hath as it were given you a new life, by reprieving you from the gates of death when you were so near unto it,