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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 3
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.
1. The Old Serpent is a great enemy to this New li•e; he hath old stratagems, and old devices and snares to divert them out of this way.
2. The Old Principle of corruption remaining in our hearts is a great Impediment to this new life. It is working still in us, to walk in the old ways of pleasures and delights; the Old man within will still strive hard to hinder this New life without.
2. The Old Principle of corruption remaining in our hearts is a great Impediment to this new life. It is working still in us, to walk in the old waies of pleasures and delights; the Old man within will still strive hard to hinder this New life without.
3. Old sinful Company will hinder you in your new manner of life; they will be tempting, and enticing, and persuading you, to come to your old games, and your old delights; It will be hard to live a new life amongst old sinful Companions.
3. Old sinful Company will hinder you in your new manner of life; they will be tempting, and enticing, and perswading you, to come to your old games, and your old delights; It will be hard to live a new life amongst old sinful Companions.