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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 › Section 1
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. 1It doth not consist in some new notions, or new speculations, which you had not before, a new light might be made in an old house. New speculations may consist with an old Conversation.
- 1What newness of life doth not consist in.
2. It doth not consist in a newness of a bare resolution to lead a new life; this is but in order to it, though, if it be real, it is a good step towards this walking.
3. It doth not consist in a bare performance of some new duties which you did not before; an old course of sin may consist with the external performance of some New Duties, as Praying, Reading, &c.
4. Nor in a bare keeping of some new Company; though this is to be desired, that many would forsake their old wicked Company; or if God hath taken thy wicked Companions away by death, thou wouldst not make choice of those that be as bad.