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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.
7. Will not you trust in God who is so nearly ⟨p. 278⟩related to you? Men are apt to trust too much in their earthly Friends and Relations: We put civil trust and confidence in our near Relations, because of the affection that they bear unto us: Thus Children trust to their Parents, and Wives in their Husbands, and one Friend in another; God is your Father, your Husband, and your Friend, and yet will you not put your trust in him?
7. Will not you trust in God who is so nearly ⟨p. 278⟩related to you? Men are apt to trust too much in th•ir e•rthly Friends and Relations: We put civil trust and confidence in our neer Relations, because of the affection that they bear unto us: Thus Children trust to their Parents, and Wives in their Husbands, and one Friend in another; God is your Father, your Husband, and your Friend, and yet will you not put your trust in him?
8. Will not you put your trust in God for smaller things, since you trust him for the greatest? you trust in God to deliver you from the torments of Hell; and, will not you trust him to deliver you from far lesser evils? you trust in him for Pardon, and for eternal life; and, will you not trust in him for smaller matters? Will you trust him wi•h your Soul, and not with your Body? for Eternal Life, and, not for Temporal? would you trust a Man for thousands, and not for Pence? especially, when the Providence of God extends to the smallest concernments of his children, even to an hair of their heads, Mat. 10.30.
8. Will not you put your trust in God for smaller things, since you trust him for the greatest? you trust in God to deliver you from the torments of Hell; and, will not you trust him to deliver you from farr lesser evils? you trust in him for Pardon, and for eternal life; and, will you not trust in him for smaller matters? Will you trust him wih your Soul, and not with your Body? for Eternal Life, and, not for Temporal? would you trust a Man for thousands, and not for Pence? especially, when the Providence of God extends to the smallest concernments of his children, even to an hair of their heads,