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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 2
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.
2. A new life it is the most rational life. When the Prodigal left his old ways, and took up a new course, he is said to come to himself, Luk. 15.17. Men act most unreasonably when they act wickedly.
2. A new life it is the most rational life. When the Prodigal left his old waies, and took up a new course, he is said to come to himself, Luk. 15.17. Men act most unreasonably when they act wickedly.
3. A new life is the sweetest and most comfortable life; There are sensual, carnal, brutish delights in the ways of sin, but there is much terror and bitterness in a wicked course, always at the end of it. Such as lead a new life, they have experience of the comforts of the Spirit, of the joys of the Holy Ghost. All these new ways (so called as opposed to his former ways, else the best way is the oldest way) are ways of pleasantness, and all these paths are p••ce.
3. A new life is the sweetest and most comfortable life; There are sensual, carnal, brutish delights in the waies of sin, but there is much terrour and bitterness in a wicked course, alwaies at the end of it. Such as lead a new life, they have experience of the comforts of the Spirit, of the joyes of the Holy Ghost. All these new waies (so called as opposed to his former waies, else the best way is the oldest way) are waies of pleasan•ness, and all these paths are p••ce.