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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.
3. Forgiveness of sin is through the blood §3of Christ. Free grace is the impulsive cause, Christs* blood is the meritorious. Heb. 9. 22: Without shedding of blood is no remission. Justice would be revenged either on the sinner or the surety. Every pardon is the price of blood.
- *Christus se in cruce Deo oblatus est sacrificium [Greek or Hebrew], sic nostra pians peccata. Maresius de ver. rel. lib. 3.Christus se in cruce Deo oblatus est sacrificium 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, sic nostra pians peccata. Maresius de ver. rel. lib. 3.
4. Before sin is forgiven, it must be repented of. Therefore repentance and remission are linked together. Luk. 24. 47. That §4repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his Name*. Not that repentance doth in a Popish sense merit forgiveness; Christs blood must wash our Tears: but repentance is a qualification, though not a cause. He who is humbled for sin will the more value pardoning mercy. When there is nothing in the soul but clouds of sorrow, and now God brings a pardon, which is a setting up a Rainbow in the Cloud, to tell the sinner, that the flood of wrath shall not overflow him; O what joy is there at the sight of this Rainbow! The soul that before was steeped in tears, now melts in love to God. Luk. 7. 38. 47.