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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 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.
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 praies, and preacheth, he reads and studies, that God may be glorified.
To walk in newness of life includes a newness of objects, about which he is conversant; such as keep their old course of life look no higher than worldly objects, the honours, and the pleasures and the profits of this world: But such as are risen with Christ, to walk in newness of life, have proposed to themselves new objects, things that are above; God, and Grace, and Heaven, things that are invisible to the eyes of carnal men.