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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 13 › Section 1
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.
This must be done three ways:
This must be done three waies:
1. You must praise God with your tongues: Your lips must show forth his praises, Psal. 51.15. Your tongue must sing aloud of Gods righteousness and mercy. For this end God hath preserved you, Psal. 30.11. Thou hast turned for me my ⟨p. 281⟩mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. Ver. 12. To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent: O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. By [glory] David means his tongue: The Tongue is the glory of a man, it being his privilege above all Creatures, with the tongue to form articulate words, having distinction of sound, for the communicating of the conceptions of his mind unto others. Thus we should praise God by speaking of his excellencies and perfections of his nature, of his works and ways, of his dealings with us, of the danger he hath delivered us from, of the good he hath given to us, of the salvation he hath wrought for us.
1. You must praise God with your tongues: Your lips must shew forth his praises, Psal. 51.15. Your tongue must sing aloud of Gods righteousness and mercy. For this end God hath preserved you, Psal. 30.11. Thou hast turned for me my ⟨p. 281⟩mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloath, and girded me with gladness. Ver. 12. To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent: O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. By [glory] David means his tongue: The Tongue is the glory of a man, it being his priviledge above all Creatures, with the tongue to form articulate words, having distinction of sound, for the communicating of the conceptions of his mind unto others. Thus we should praise God by speaking of his excellencies and perfections of his nature, of his works and waies, of his dealings with us, of the danger he hath delivered us from, of the good he hath given to us, of the salvation he hath wrought for us.