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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 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.
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.
1. It is a fruit of faith; for therefore a Man trusteth in God, because he believeth, and is perswaded of the truth of what God saith, and believeth the performance of his promise, and so it is called fiducia fidei.
2. It is a fruit of hope; for therefore I trust in God, because I hope it shall be with me according to his Word: If I had no hope of this, I could not trust in God, and so it is called fiducia spei.
3. This trust hath God in Christ, through a Promise, for its object; We trust in God, through Christ, eying the Promise: For, the Promise of ⟨p. 275⟩God, is the foundation of our trust in God, and the Promise of God draws forth the hearts of his People to trust in him, Psal. 119.42. — I trust in thy Word.