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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.
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.
4. A new life it is the noblest life, we then live according to the highest elevation that we are capable of in this life. Nay, it is a life nearest to the life of glory.
5. A new life is an evidencing life; it is an evidence of the great and glorious things that are brought to light by the Gospel, all full of delighting comfort. A new l•fe (t•king in all the particulars before set down, showing the things included in it) is an evidence,