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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.
Use 2.1 Let us labour to be like God in holiness.
- 1Use 2. of Exhort.
1. This is Gods great design he drives on in the world;1 'tis the end of the Word preached: the silver drops of the Sanctuary are to water the seed of grace, and make a crop of holiness spring up: What use is there of the Promises but to bribe us to holiness? What are all Gods Providential Dispensations, but to excite holiness? As the Lord makes use of all the seasons of the year, frost and heat, to bring on the harvest; so all prosperous and adverse providences, are for the promoting the work of holiness in the soul. What is the end of the mission of the spirit, but to make the heart holy? When the air is unwholesome by reason of foggy vapours, the wind is a fan to winnow and purify the air: so the blowing of Gods Spirit upon the heart, is to purify it, and make it holy.
1. This is Gods great design he drives on in the world;1 'tis the end of the Word preached: the silver drops of the Sanctuary are to water the seed of grace, and make a crop of holiness spring up: What use is there of the Promises but to bribe us to holiness? What are all Gods Providential Dispensations, but to excite holiness? As the Lord makes use of all the seasons of the year, frost and heat, to bring on the harvest; so all prosperous and adverse providences, are for the promoting the work of holiness in the soul. What is the end of the mission of the spirit, but to make the heart holy? When the ayr is unwholesome by reason of foggy vapours, the wind is a fan to winnow and purifie the ayr: so the blowing of Gods Spirit upon the heart, is to purifie it, and make it holy.