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The Godly Man's Picture
The godly mans picture drawn with a scripture-pencil, or, Some characteristical notes of a man that shall go to heaven by Thomas Watson ...The godly mans picture drawn with a scripture-pensil, or, Some characteristical notes of a man that shall go to heaven by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1666
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Before this union with Christ, there must be a separation; the heart must be separated from all other lovers; as in marriage there is a leaving of Father and Mother, Psa. 45. 10. Forget also thine own people, and thy Fathers house; So there must be a leaving of our former sins, a breaking off the old league with hell, before we can be united to Christ, Hos. 14. 8. Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with Idols? or as it is in the Hebrew, with sorrows: 1Those sins which before were looked upon as lovers, now they are sorrows; there must be a divorce, before an union.
Before this union with Christ, there must be a separation; the heart must be separated from all other lovers; as in marriage there is a leaving of Father and Mother, Psa. 45. 10. Forget also thine own people, and thy Fathers house; So there must be a leaving of our former sins, a breaking off the old league with hell, before wee can bee united to Christ, Hos. 14. 8. Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with Idols? or as it is in the Hebrew, with sorrows: 1Those sins which before were looked upon as lovers, now they are sorrows; there must be a divorce, before an union.
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The end of our conjugal union with Christ is twofold.