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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. 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, 2 Pet. 2.9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation. —And, will you not trust a God that is able and willing, and faithful and wise? especially after you have experienced all these in God, in the late dangers and fears of death that you have been in? or, shall these qualifications of power, willingness, faithfulness, and wisdom in Men (in their measure) be a ground of your putting civill trust in them; and, shall not all these, that be in God without measure, be a ground of your putting Religious trust in him?
5. Will not you trust in God that is infinite in Wisdom, and knowes how to order all your affaires? when your condition is altogether intricate, and you know not how to winde your self out of difficulties, then your wise God can do it,