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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.
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?
4. Will not you trust in a God, that is faithful in all he saith? He declares his willingness to do you good, to supply your wants, to preserve you in dangers, by his promise: for, a Promise of God is a declaration of his will, for the bestowing of some good thing upon his People through Christ, and his will and purpose he will never change, and his Promise he will not suffer to fail: Will you trust a Man that is faithful to his word, and not God? especially after you have found him faithful in performing promise unto you.
4. Will not you trust in a God, that is faithfull in all he saith? He declares his willingness to do you good, to supply your wants, to preserve you in dangers, by his promise: for, a Promise of God is a declaration of his will, for the bestowing of some good thing upon his People through Christ, and his will and purpose he will never change, and his Promise he will not suffer to faile: Will you trust a Man that is faithful to his word, and not God? especially after you have found him faithful in performing promise unto you.
5. Will not you trust in God that is infinite in Wisdom, and knows how to order all your affairs? when your condition is altogether intricate, and you know not how to wind your self out of difficulties, then your wise God can do it,