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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.
6. A new life is •n encouraging life; it will be an encouragement to a man to go •o God in his greatest straits; it will encourage a man with boldness to look death in the face when it comes.
7. It is the most profitable life to our selves and to others; we shall be giving to others a good example, if we lead new lives, whereby they may be drawn to an holy Imitation. A new heart you may have, and that may profit your self, but a new life will be profitable to others as well as to your self.
7. It is the most profitable life to our selves and to others; we shall be giving to others a good example, if we lead new lives, whereby they may be drawn to an holy Imitation. A new he•rt you may have, and that may profit your self, but a new life will be profitable to others as well as to your self.
8. A new life is the only life that honours God, and that doth credit the Gospel, and the Profession that we make. To live in an old course of swearing, and lying, and Sabbath-breaking, is to dishonour God: but if you walk in newness of life, you will promote the great end for which you live, i. e. the glory of God; and the excellency of any thing is according to its suitableness and tendency to the attaining of a mans ultimate end, it is a new life that only glorifieth God, therefore a new life is the only excellent life.
8. A new life is the only life that honours God, and that doth credit the Gospel, and the Profession that we make. To live in an old course of swearing, and lying, and Sabbath-breaking, is to dishonour God: but if you walk in newness of life, you will promote the great end for which you live, i. e. the glory of God; and the excellency of any thing is according to its sutableness and tendency to the attaining of a mans ultimate end, it is a new life that only glorifieth God, therefore a new life is the only exellent life.