A36329:835
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
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. Let the Relations that God hath continued unto you, have a room in your heart and affection, according to the measure that God commands: He that hath Children spared, and hath not suitable affections for them, will not, cannot be thankful unto God for the continuance of their lives, and so Husbands and Wives: but, then you must love them, and your own life, but according to the measure that God allows: For, to love any of these, your Relations, or your Life immoderately, will not be to be thankful for them, but to abuse them, and make Idols of them: Let your own Life and your Relations have their allowance of your love, but no •re.
4. Let the Relations that God hath continued unto you, have a roome in your heart and affection, according to the measure that God commands: He that hath Children spared, and hath not sutable affections for them, will not, cannot be thankful unto God for the continuance of their lives, and so Husbands and Wives: but, then you must love them, and your own life, but according to the measure that God allowes: For, to love any of these, your Relations, or your Life immoderately, will not be to be thankful for them, but to abuse them, and make Idols of them: Let your own Life and your Relations have their allowance of your love, but no •re.
5. Pray to God for a Praising Thankful heart for this Mercy. God gives us all our Mercies, and God must give us a Thankful heart for these Mercies, else we cannot give to God the glory of them: When you were in your danger you were afraid, least God should deny you life, when you Prayed unto him for it: but, are you as afraid, least you should not have an heart thankfully to improve it, when he hath granted it unto you? You Prayed for life, now Pray to God to make you thankful, and thankfully to improve it: