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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 2 › Section 4
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.
SECT. IV.
II. 1That wicked men will grow in sin, appears from the instigation of the Devil, who is unweariedly diligent to tempt unto sin, and to add one iniquity unto another: and that because he rules in their hearts, and takes them ⟨p. 22⟩captive at his pleasure, 2 Tim. 2.26. A man will be very wicked, that will sin as often as the Devil tempts. A man is never so bad, but the Devil would have him to be worse; Judas was an hypocrite before, but yet Satan put it into his heart to be more vile, in betraying Christ, Joh. 13.2. Satan tempting without, and sin inclining within, Satan never ceasing to tempt, and Sinners not knowing how to resist, will be growing (like the Crocodile from an Egg) to a stupendous magnitude.
II. 1THat wicked men will grow in sin, appears from the instigation of the Devil, who is unweariedly diligent to tempt unto sin, and to adde one iniquity unto another: and that because he rules in their hearts, and takes them ⟨p. 22⟩captive at his pleasure,