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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.
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.
5. Nor in New discoursing of spiritual things; ⟨p. 258⟩A man that was wont to swear, and reproach, and blaspheme the name of God, might now talk of God with others, and yet not lead a new life.
6. Nor in forbearing of many old sins, which before you lived in; you were drunkards before, but not now, I would more were so changed, but yet this comes short of this newness of life; which doth include these things following.