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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.
2. Will not you trust in God that is All sufficient and Almighty, able to deliver you from any ⟨p. 276⟩evil, able to bestow upon you any thing that is good? He can remove your fears, and he can fill your desires: According to your persuasions of a Mans ability to help you (caeteris paribus) will your trust be in him, 2 Cor. 1.9. For we had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in our selves, but in God which raiseth the dead. That God that can raise the dead, may be trusted in any case or condition: You have found him able.
2. Will not you trust in God that is All sufficient and Allmighty, able to deliver you from any ⟨p. 276⟩evil, able to bestow upon you any thing that is good? He can remove your feares, and he can fill your desires: According to your perswasions of a Mans ability to help you (caeteris paribus) will your trust be in him, 2 Cor. 1.9. For we had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in our selves, but in God which raiseth the dead. That God that can raise the dead, may be trusted in any case or condition: You have found him able.
3. Will not you trust in God, that is so willing to do you good? you may acknowledge Gods all-sufficiency to be a support for your trusting in him, but, the doubts that you find in your Soul, whether God be willing to do you good, is a cause of your (too frequent) distrust in him: You must believe that God is a God of mercy, and ready to do for his People, whatsoever he seeth conduceth to his glory and their good: and, you may know his willingness by his promises, which are various, according to the condition that you are, or may be in: You have found him willing, and yet will you not trust him?