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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.
To walk in newness of life, is to have a Conversation filled with new works, and to have all things done according to the Rule of new obedience. His old work was to please the flesh, but his new work is to please God. His old work was chiefly to get riches and increase therein, his new work is to get grace and more of it. His old work was to obey the commands of sin, his new work is to obey the commands of God.
To walk in newness of life, is to have a Conversation filled with new works, and to have all things done according to the Rule of new obedience. His old work was to please the flesh, but his new work is to please God. His old work was chiefly to get riches and encrease therein, his new work is to get grace and more of it. His old work was to obey the commands of sin, his new work is to obey the commands of God.
To walk in newness of life▪ is to walk according to the new Rule, not according to the practises and examples of wicked men, but according ⟨p. 260⟩to the rule of Gods Word, according to the example of Christ.
To walk in newness of life is to live for new ends; his end is not now self-interest in the world, not his own estimation amongst men, not his preferment in this world; old ends are inconsistent with a new life: But this mans end is the glory of God; all the actions of his life are ultimately resolved into this, and all is, in subordination unto this: He trades for this end, that God may be glorified; he prays, and preacheth, he reads and studies, that God may be glorified.