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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.
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.
4. Slavish fear of men is a great impediment ⟨p. 265⟩of walking in newness of life; it may be thou mightest displease thy Father, thy Master, the Friend upon whom thou dost much depend, if thou shouldest forsake thy old wicked life, and become a new Creature, and lead a new life, thou wouldest meet with new troubles; but, fear God, and his Vengeance more if thou walk in thy old course of sin, and keep thy old heart, then be filled with slavish fear of men, if they should deny their old favour, and friendship to thee, because thou walkest in newness of life.
5. Flesh-pleasing; and being too much over-poured by the sensitive appetite.
5. Flesh-pleasing; and being too much over-powred by the sensitive appetite.