A36329:787
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.
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.
4. The effect of this trusting in God is the quietation of the heart, and a freeing of the Soul (proportionably to the degree of his trust) from fretting fears, and cutting cares about good and evil, to be avoided or procured, Psal. 56.3. What time I am afraid I will trust in thee. Vers. 4. In God will I praise his Word; in God I have put my trust, I will not fear what Flesh can do unto me.
4. The effect of this trusting in God is the quietation of the heart, and a freeing of the Soul (proportionably to the degree of his trust) from fretting feares, and cutting cares about good and evil, to be avoided or procured, Psal. 56.3. What time I am afraid I will trust in thee. Vers. 4. In God will I praise his Word; in God I have put my trust, I will not fear what Flesh can do unto me.