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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.
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.
1To walk in newness of life, supposeth a new saving knowledge, a new sight, and a new judgement of things. No man can lead this new life with his old judgment which was corrupt, judging that good which was evil, and that evil which was good, 1 Pet. 1.14. As obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts, in your Ignorance. There must be a new sight and new discovery of these things: 1. Of God, and his Excellency. 2. Of Christ and his Sufficiency. 3. Of •in, and it• Deformity. 4. Of the World, and its Vanity. 5. Of Grace, and its Necessity. 6. Of Heaven, and its Felicity. 7. Of Hell, and its extremity of Woe.
1To walk in newness of life, supposeth a new saving knowledge, a new sight, and a new judgement of things. No man can lead this new life with his old judgment which was corrupt, judging that good which was evil, and that evil which was good, 1 Pet. 1.14. As obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts, in your Ignorance. There must be a new sight and new discoverie of these things: 1. Of God, and his Excellency. 2. Of Christ and his Sufficiency. 3. Of •in, and it• Deformity. 4. Of the World, and its Vanity. 5. Of Grace, and its Necessity. 6. Of Heaven, and its Felicity. 7. Of Hell, and its extremity of Woe.