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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.
2. The impulses of a Natural Conscience, put men only upon more facile duties of Religion, wherein the heart is less exercised; as perfunctory reading, or praying; but the motions of the spirit in the godly go further, causing them to set upon the most irksome duties, as self-reflection, self-humbling; ⟨p. 91⟩yea perilous duties, as confessing Christs Name in times of danger: Divine motions are in the heart like new wine which will have vent: When Gods Spirit possesseth a man, it carries him full-sail through all difficulties.
2. The impulses of a Natural Conscience, put men only upon more facil duties of Religion, wherein the heart is less exercised; as perfunctory reading, or praying; but the motions of the spirit in the godly go further, causing them to set upon the most irksome duties, as self-reflection, self-humbling; ⟨p. 91⟩yea perillous duties, as confessing Christs Name in times of danger: Divine motions are in the heart like new wine which will have vent: When Gods Spirit possesseth a man, it carries him full-sail through all difficulties.
2. The Spirit discovers it self in the godly by its† virtues. These are various.
- †Spiritus Dei opulens virtutibus suamque [Greek or Hebrew] impertiens Ambros. de Spir.Spiritus Dei opulens virtutibus suamque 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 impertiens Ambros. de Spir.