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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 5
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.
1. The Fear of God: This is that which causeth a man to shun evil. Job 1.1. Job was a man fearing God, and eschewing evil. Prov. 8.13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. But where the fear of the Lord is not, there the floodgates are pulled up: If the Devil tempt a man that feareth not God to sport on the Lords day, he will do it; to omit Prayer, he will do it; yea, if there were no Devil to tempt him, he would run on in sin. This is brought in as the cause of crying sins, Rom. 3.12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, ⟨p. 23⟩18. Many sins there are enumerated, and at the close of all is, There is no fear of God before their eyes. Abraham dared not to trust himself with a people that did not fear God, Gen. 20.11. Abraham said, Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my Wives sake.
1. The Fear of God: This is that which causeth a man to shun evil. Job 1.1. Job was a man fearing God, and eschewing evil. Prov. 8.13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. But where the fear of the Lord is not, there the floodgates are pulled up: If the Devil tempt a man that feareth not God to sport on the Lords day, he will do it; to omit Prayer, he will doe it; yea, if there were no Devil to tempt him, he would run on in sin. This is brought in as the cause of crying sins, Rom. 3.12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, ⟨p. 23⟩18. Many sins there are enumerated, and at the close of all is, There is no fear of God before their eyes. Abraham dared not to trust himself with a people that did not fear God,