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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.
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.
Quest. 2. How may the motions of the Spirit in the godly, be distinguished from the impulses of a Natural Conscience?
Answ. 1. A Natural Conscience may provoke sometimes to the same thing that the spirit doth, but not from the same principle. Natural Conscience is a spu• to duty, but it puts a man upon doing duties for fear of hell; as the Galley tugs at the Oar for fear of being beaten: whereas the spirit moves a Child of God from a more Noble Principle; it makes him serve God out of choice, and esteem duty his privilege.
Answ. 1. A Natural Conscience may provoke sometimes to the same thing that the spirit doth, but not from the same principle. Natural Conscience is a spu• to duty, but it puts a man upon doing duties for fear of hell; as the Gally tugs at the Oar for fear of being beaten: whereas the spirit moves a Childe of God from a more Noble Principle; it makes him serve God out of choice, and esteem duty his priviledge.