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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
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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.
4. A godly heart grieves that he can be no more holy; it troubles him that he shoots so short of the Rule and Standard which God hath set: I should, faith he, love the Lord with all my heart: But how defective is my love? how far short do I come of what I should be, nay, of what I might have been: What can I see in my life, but either blanks or blots?
5. A godly man weeps sometimes, out of the sense of Gods love: Gold is the finest and most solid of all the metals, yet is soonest melted with the fire: Gracious hearts, which are golden hearts, are the soonest melted ⟨p. 73⟩into tears by the fire of Gods love. I once knew an holy man, who walking in his garden, and shedding plenty of tears, a friend coming to him accidentally, asked him, why he wept? He brake forth into this pathetical expression, O the love of Christ, the love of Christ, Thus have we seen the Cloud melted into water by the Sun-beams.
6. A godly person weeps, because the sins he commits are in some sense worse than the sins of other men; the sin of a justified person is very odious.
1. Because he acts contrary to his own principles; he doth not only sin against the Rule, but against his Principles, against his knowledge, vows, prayers, hopes, experiences: He knows how dear sin will cost him, yet he adventures upon the forbidden fruit.