A65296:1034
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.
3. Christ dischargeth those debts which no other Husband can: Our sins are the worst debts we owe, (if all the Angels should go to make a Purse, they could not pay one of these debts) but Christ frees us from these; he is both an Husband and a Surety; he saith to Justice, as Paul concerning Onesimus, If he owes thee any thing, put it upon my score, I will repay it, Philem. 19.
3. Christ dischargeth those debts which no other Husband can: Our sins are the worst debts we owe, (if all the Angels should go to make a Purse, they could not pay one of these debts) but Christ frees us from these; he is both an Husband and a Surety; he saith to Justice, as Paul concerning Onesimus, If he ows thee any thing, put it upon my score, I will repay it, Philem. 19.
4. Christ hath suffered more for his Spouse, than ever any Husband did for a Wife; he suffered poverty and ignominy: He who crowned the heavens with stars, was himself crowned with* thorns: He was called a companion of sinners, that we might be made companions of Angels; he was regardless of his life; he leaped into the Sea of his Fathers wrath to save his Spouse from drowning.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Chrysost.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Chrysost.
5. Christs love doth not end with his life. He loves his Spouse for ever,