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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.
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.
3. Godly sorrow is influential; it makes the heart better, Eccles. 7. 3. By the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better. Divine tears do not only wet, but wash, they purge out the love of sin.