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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.
SECT. VIII.
8. A godly man is an Evangelical weeper.1 David did sometimes sing with his Harp, and sometimes the Organ of his eye did weep, Psal. 6. 6. I water my couch with tears. Christ calls his Spouse his Dove, Cant. 2. 14. The Dove is a weeping creature: Grace dissolves and liquefies and Soul, causing a spiritual thaw: The sorrow of the heart runs out at the eye, Psa. 31. 9.
8. A godly man is an Evangelical weeper.1 David did sometimes sing with his Harp, and sometimes the Organ of his eye did weep, Psal. 6. 6. I water my couch with tears. Christ calls his Spouse his Dove, Cant. 2. 14. The Dove is a weeping creature: Grace dissolves and liquifies and Soul, causing a spiritual thaw: The sorrow of the heart runs out at the eye, Psa. 31. 9.
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The Rabbins report, that the same night Israel departed out of Egypt towards Canaan, all the Idols of Egypt were broken down by Lightning and Earthquake: So at that very time men go forth out of their natural condition towards heaven, all the Idols of sin in the heart must be broken down by Repentance: A melting heart is the chief branch of the Covenant of Grace,