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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.
4. Is not God most worthy of your highest and your heartiest praises? You were not worthy of Gods mercies, you were not worthy of life, but God is worthy of the best of your praises, were they as perfect as the Hallelujahs of the Saints in heaven. God indeed is above all praise, Neh. 9.5. But yet he is pleased with his peoples praising of him.
5. Will you praise the efficacy of your Antidotes, and the skill of your able Physician, by whose help you have been (under God) preserved: And will you not be much more in praising of God, for your safety, when without his blessing all had been ineffectual? Will you praise the Instrument and means, and say, I had an able Doctor, and not the principal cause of your preservation, and say, I had a good God.
5. Will you praise the efficacy of your Antidotes, and the skill of your able Physitian, by whose help you have been (under God) preserved: And will you not be much more in praising of God, for your safety, when without his blessing all had been ineffectual? Will you praise the Instrument and means, and say, I had an able Doctor, and not the principal cause of your preservation, and say, I had a good God.
6. Will not you praise God for his mercy towards you, no, not for your life, when this is all that God requireth at your hands, that you should be thankful for your life, and thankfully improve it for his glory? You cannot make a requital, but God expecteth some return; you cannot make a retaliation, but God looketh for some retribution: And will not you think an alms ill bestowed upon that beggar, that will not give you thanks? And will not life be continued to the aggravation of your sin, if you are not thankful for it?