A36329:824
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.
8. Will not you give to God the glory of his preserving providence, when if you do not, (that are Gods people) none else will? The wicked that are spared, they will not, they cannot praise God; they will dishonour him, they will speak to Gods dishonour, and act to Gods dishonour, so that if you do not praise God for his sparing so many alive, none else will: And shall God be without all thankful acknowledgements of his remembering mercy, in the midst of judgment? God forbid: That amongst all the thousands that are spared, there should be none found, making some thankful return to God. This number will be but small; amongst the Ten Lepers that were cleansed there was but one found thankful. If you ⟨p. 287⟩would not have God to lose the glory of his providence, then you must be the men that must honour him for it. Many wicked men were not found praying to be preserved, much less will they be found praising, when they are preserved.
8. Will not you give to God the glory of his preserving providence, when if you do not, (that are Gods people) none else will? The wicked that are spared, they will not, they cannot praise God; they will dishonour him, they will speak to Gods dishonour, and act to Gods dishonour, so that if you do not praise God for his sparing so many alive, none else will: And shall God be without all thankful acknowledgments of his remembring mercy, in the midst of judgment? God forbid: That amongst all the thousands that are spared, there should be none found, making some thankful return to God. This number will be but small; amongst the Ten Lepers that were cleansed there was but one found thankful. If you ⟨p. 287⟩would not have God to lose the glory of his providence, then you must be the men that must honour him for it. Many wicked men were not found praying to be preserved, much less will they be found praising, when they are preserved.
9. Have you more cause to bless God for life than others have, and yet will not you do it? Your life is more sweet and comfortable to you, than the lives of wicked men are, or can be, forasmuch as you have those comforts with life, and that Communion with God in life, that wicked men have not: They live only a natural life, and have only the sweetness of natural life, but you with this life have also the comforts of an higher life, and yet will not you bless God for it? They are delivered from the Grave for a while, but not from the wrath of God too; from the Grave, but not from the danger of hell too, but so are you: And have you so much cause to bless God for life, and will you want an heart to bless him?