A36329:784
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 12: DIRECTION XII.
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.
But, because we need all helps and supports for putting our trust in God, I shall lay down some considerations to help you more and more to trust in God; premising first the nature of it, that you may perceive what it is, that you are exhorted to, when persuaded to trust in God.
But, because we need all helps and supports for putting our trust in God, I shall lay down some considerations to help you more and more to trust in God; premising first the nature of it, that you may perceive what it is, that you are exhorted to, when perswaded to trust in God.
1Trusting in God is a special fruit of faith and hope, whereby the soul looking upon God in Christ, through a Promise, is in some good measure freed from fretting fears, and cutting cares, about the removing or preventing of some evil, or the enjoying or procuring of that which is good.
1Trusting in God is a special fruit of faith and hope, whereby the soul looking upon God in Christ, through a Promise, is in some good measure freed from fretting feares, and cutting cares, about the removing or preventing of some evil, or the enjoying or procuring of that which is good.
- 1Description of trust.
1. It is a fruit of faith; for therefore a Man trusteth in God, because he believeth, and is persuaded of the truth of what God saith, and believeth the performance of his promise, and so it is called fiducia fidei.