A65296:269
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. By its motions: These are some of that sweet perfume the spirit breaths upon the ⟨p. 90⟩heart, whereby it is raised into a kind of Angelical frame.
Quest. 1. But how may we know the motions of the Spirit from a delusion?
Answ. The motions of the Spirit are always consonant to the word; the word is the Chariot wherein the Spirit of God* rides; which way the tide of the word runs, that way the wind of the spirit blows.
Answ. The motions of the Spirit are always consonant to the word; the word is the Chariot wherein the Spirit of God* rides; which way the tyde of the word runs, that way the wind of the spirit blows.
- *Verbum est vehiculum spiritus.