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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 2
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.
First, Benefits received. Kindnesses call for acknowledgements; favours are obliging. We must give thanks in, and for afflictions, much more when we are delivered. I deserved judgments, but benefits have been my receipt.
First, Benefits received. Kindnesses call for acknowledgments; favours are obliging. We must give thanks in, and for afflictions, much more when we are delivered. I deserved judgments, but benefits have been my receipt.
Secondly, The Author of them, [His] benefits; The kindnesses of men should not be forgotten, much less the benefits of God. Your life is a benefit, and God is the Author of it.
Thirdly, The Number of them; [All] his benefits; they were many, not a few. Three things are innumerable: Gods mercies to us, Our sins against God, The evils that good men suffer, Psal. 40.5, 12.
Fourthly, The Person to whom they were given: For all his benefits to [me.] Hath God indeed given such mercy to me? Hath God continued life to me, so vile, so unworthy, Oh what shall I render? (2.) He resolves this case propounded; I will take the Cup of salvation; I will offer the sacrifice of praise. God hath taken from you (for the present) the Cup of death, which was to so many a Cup of trembling;