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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 2 › 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. 1One sin doth incline and dispose the heart to sin again: The first sin inclined all men to commit more, where grace is predominant, the heart is inclined to love God, and to obey God, the general scope of such a mans life, and the bent and inclination of his heart is towards God and duty, to grow in grace, and become better and better. Now Contrariorum contraria est ratio & natura. Sin doth dispose the heart to sin, and to depart from God more and more, Heb. 3.12. It makes the bent of the heart to Backslide further and further from God, Hos. 11.7. It makes the heart set to do evil, Eccles. 8.11. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. As is the tide to the boat, so is sin to mans heart.
1. 1One sin doth incline and dispose the heart to sin again: The first sin inclined all men to commit more, where grace is predominant, the heart is inclined to love God, and to obey God, the generall scope of such a mans life, and the bent and inclination of his heart is towards God and duty, to grow in grace, and become better and better. Now Contrariorum contraria est ratio & natura. Sin doth dispose the heart to sin, and to depart from God more and more, Heb. 3.12. It makes the bent of the heart to Backslide further and further from God, Hos. 11.7. It makes the heart set to do evill, Eccles. 8.11. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. As is the tide to the boate, so is sin to mans heart.
- 1Sin disposeth the heart to sin.