Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

¹Hath God spared thee in time of Plague, then see what it was that thy Conscience did most accuse thee, or commend thee for, when the Plague was nigh thy dwelling, or thou wast in ⟨p. 272⟩fear and danger, and order thy life accordingly: What sin was it that thy Conscience did reproach thee for, in a time of danger, and in fears of death? whether of omission or commission; public or secret; of what nature soever it was: and let it be the design of thy heart, in the course of thy life, to mortify that sin, and keep it under; that thou carefully avoid the occasions thereof: that, when death shall certainly come, and conscience shall have no more occasion, or just ground to reproach thee, thou mayest see, that God in mercy did prolong thy days, till thou hadst got the victory over, and the pardon, and the evidence of the pardon of that sin. What was it in thy fears, and when thou wast in expectation of death, that Conscience did approve in thee? it did then approve thy diligence in thy Family, go on in this still; it did approve of thy strict and holy walking with God, go on in that which was good, and thy rightly enlightened Conscience did commend in thee; and, this will be to live in some measure answerably to so great a mercy, as is Gods preserving of you in a time of such a wasting Plague.

¹HAth God spared thee in time of Plague, then see what it was that thy Conscience did most accuse thee, or commend thee for, when the Plague was nigh thy dwelling, or thou wast in