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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 3
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.
2. If you would be thankful for life, and have an heart to render Praises to the Lord, for your own, and your Relations; consider, how uncomfortable your Life had been, had God continued you, and taken away your nearest Relations; and, how uncomfortable your Life would have been, had God continued them only, and taken you away from them: You may consider while you live, the Discomforts of your Relations, and the sorrow of their hearts, if God had removed you by death; What an uncomfortable Widow would your Wife (now) have been? what uncomfortable Orphans would your Children [now] have been! You have enough before you, and amongst you, that are sad Instances of this: Oh, consider this, and it will be a means to make you thankful, and to give to God the Glory of your Preservation.
2. If you would be thankful for life, and have an heart to render Praises to the Lord, for your own, and your Relations; consider, how uncomfortable your Life had been, had God continued you, and taken away your neerest Relations; and, how uncomfortable your Life would have been, had God continued them onely, and taken you away from them: You may consider while you live, the Discomforts of your Relations, and the sorrow of their hearts, if God had removed you by death; What an uncomfortable Widow would your Wife (now) have been? what uncomfortable Orphans would your Children [now] have been! You have enough before you, and amongst you, that are sad Instances of this: Oh, consider this, and it will be a meanes to make you thankful, and to give to God the Glory of your Preservation.
3. Retain in your memory the greatness of this Mercy, when you have apprehended how great it is; a forgetful person will be an unthankful person: When David would have his Soul to bless God for his Mercy, he lays a charge upon himself ⟨p. 290⟩not to forget the Benefits he had received, Psal. 103.2. Bless the Lord, oh my Soul, and forget not all his benefits: Record Gods Mercy to you herein, and get it imprinted on the Table of your heart: forgetfulness is a great hinderance to every duty; as, some Men forget their sins, and they will not be humbled for them: Some Men forget Gods Mercies, and they will not be thankful for them: some forget both, and are neither penitent nor thankful. So, to remember some things, and forget others, is very injurious to Mens Souls; as, Some remember Gods Mercy, and forget their sins: and these presume. Some remember their sins, and forget Gods Mercy: and these despair. But, it is best to remember both our sins and Gods Mercy: the one will make us humble, and the other thankful.