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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.
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.
Use 1.1 How far are they from being godly; who scarce ever shed a tear for sin: If they lose a near Relation, they weep, but though they are in danger of losing God and their Souls, they weep not. How few know what it is to be in an Agony for sin, or what a broken heart means; their eyes are not like the Fish-pools of Heshbon, full of water, Cant. 7. 4. but rather like the Mountains of ⟨p. 76⟩Gilboa, which had no dew upon them, 2 Sam. 1. 21. It was a greater plague for Pharaoh to have his heart turned into stone, than to have his Rivers turned into blood.
Use 1.1 How far are they from being godly; who scarce ever shed a tear for sin: If they lose a neer Relation, they weep, but though they are in danger of losing God and their Souls, they weep not. How few know what it is to be in an Agony for sin, or what a broken heart means; their eyes are not like the Fish-pools of Heshbon, full of water, Cant. 7. 4. but rather like the Mountains of ⟨p. 76⟩Gilboa, which had no dew upon them, 2 Sam. 1. 21