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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.
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?
10. Is this the most effectual way to have life continued to you, and yet will not you do it? To have life continued will be, to be thankful for it; else God (finding you unthankful) when the Plague is over, might commission death by some other distemper, to take that from you, which you would not be thankful for.
11. Is not life the sweetest of all earthly mercies, and more to be prized, and yet will not you be thankful to God for it that hath so signally continued it unto you? Skin for skin, and all that a man hath ⟨p. 288⟩he will give for his life: And yet will not you give thanks to God for life? What earthly thing will you be thankful for, •nd what mercy upon earth will you make returns to God for, if not for life?
11. Is not life the sweetest of all earthly mercies, and more to be prized, and yet will not you be thankfull to God for it that hath so signally continued it unto you? Skin for skin, and all that a man hath