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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.
Quest. But why is a godly man a weeper? Is not sin pardoned, which is the ground of Joy? Hath ot he had a transforming work upon his heart, why then doth he weep?
Quest. But why is a godly man a weeper? Is not sin pardoned, which is the ground of Ioy? Hath ot he had a transforming work upon his heart, why then doth he weep?
Answ. A godly man finds matter enough of weeping.
1. He weeps for the in-being of sin, the Law in his members, Rom. 7. 23. The ebullitions, and first risings of* sin; his Nature is a poisoned Fountain: A regenerate person grieves that he carries that about him which is enmity to God; his heart is like the wide Sea, wherein there are creeping things †innumerable; vain sinful thoughts: A Child of God laments hidden wickedness; he hath more evil in him than he knows* of: There are those Meanders in his heart which he cannot trace; a terra incognita, an unknown world of sin, Psalm 19. 12. Who can understand his errors?
1. He weeps for the in-being of sin, the Law in his members, Rom. 7. 23. The ebullitions, and first risings of