A65296:1023
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.
1 Pure and genuine, we consent to have him for his own worth and excellency, Psa. 45. 2. Thou art fairer, than the Children of men.
2 It must be a present consent, 2 Cor. 6. 2. now is the accepted time; if we put Christ off with delays and excuses, perhaps he will come no more, he will leave off wooing, his spirit shall no longer strive, and then poor sinner what wilt thou do? when Gods wooing ends, thy woes begin.
2 It must be a present consent, 2 Cor. 6. 2. now is the accepted time; if we put Christ off with delayes and excuses, perhaps he will come no more, he will leave off wooing, his spirit shall no longer strive, and then poor finner what wilt thou do? when Gods wooing ends, thy woes begin.
3 Have we taken Christ, faith is vinculum unionis, the bond of the union; Christ is joined to us by his spirit, and we are joined to him by faith: Faith ties the marriage-knot.
3 Have we taken Christ, faith is vinculum unionis, the bond of the union; Christ is joyned to us by his spirit, and we are joyned to him by faith: Faith tyes the marriage-knot.