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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.
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.
The Arguments for the moving you to trust in God, for the future, are such as these.
1.1Will not you trust in God after such rich and full experience that you have had of Gods taking care for you? Hath God cared for your life, and will not you trust him for Food and Raiment? experience is a great support for confidence in God, 2 Cor. 1.10. Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. When David had had experience of Gods delivering him from the Lion and the Bear, he trusted in God to deliver him from the hands of the uncircumcised Philistine,