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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.
Divine sorrow is excellent: There is as much difference between the sorrow of a godly man and a wicked, as between the water of a Spring which is clear and sweet, and the water of the Sea which is salt and brackish. A godly mans sorrow hath these three qualifications,
1. It is internal; it is a sorrow of Soul; hypocrites disfigure their faces, Mat. 6. 16. godly sorrow goes deep, it is a pricking at the heart, Acts 2. 37. True sorrow is a spiritual Martyrdom therefore called Soul-affliction, Lev. 23. 29.
1. It is internal; it is a sorrow of Soul; hypocrites disfigure their faces, Mat. 6. 16. godly sorrow goes deep, it is a pricking at the heart, Acts 2. 37. True sorrow is a spiritual Martyrdome therefore called Soul-affliction, Lev. 23. 29.
2. Godly sorrow is ingenuous; it is more for the evil that is in sin, than the evil which follows after; it is more for the spot than the sting: Hypocrites weep for sin only as it brings affliction. I have read of a Fountain that never sends out streams, but the Evening before a Famine: Hypocrites never send forth the streams of their tears, but when Gods Judgements are approaching.