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The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer
The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believer by Thomas Watson.The Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer by Thomas Watson.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1654
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.
O consider how you wound Religion; Your sins are worse then others. A stain in a black cloth is not so easily seen or taken notice of; but a spot in a piece of Scarlet, every ones eye ⟨p. 279⟩is upon it. The sins of wicked men are not so much wondered at, they can do no other, theirs is a spot in black; but a sin in a Professor, this is like a spot in a bright Scarlet, every ones eye is upon it▪ this wounds the honour of Religion: The deviation of the godly is as odious as the devotion of the profane. Oh that there were such a lustre and majesty of holiness in the lives of Professors, that others might say, These look as if they had been with Jesus, they live as if they were in Heaven already. Aaron must not only have Bells▪ but Pomegranates, which were for savour, as the other were for sound. It is not enough to discourse of godliness, or to make a noise by a Profession: What are these Bells without the Pomegranates, viz. a life that casts a savour in the Church of God?
O consider how you wound Religion; Your sinnes are worse then others. A staine in a black cloth is not so easily seen or taken notice of; but a spot in a piece of Scarlet, every ones eye ⟨p. 279⟩is upon it. The sinnes of wicked men are not so much wondred at, they can do no other, theirs is a spot in black; but a sinne in a Professor, this is like a spot in a bright Scarlet, every ones eye is upon it▪ this wounds the honour of Religion: The deviation of the godly is as odious as the devotion of the prophane. Oh that there were such a lustre and majesty of holinesse in the lives of Professors, that others might say, These look as if they had been with Jesus, they live as if they were in Heaven already. Aaron must not onely have Bels▪ but Pomegranates, which were for savour, as the other were for sound. It is not enough to discourse of godlinesse, or to make a noise by a Profession: What are these Bels without the Pomegranates, viz. a life that casts a savour in the Church of God?