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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.
5. The spirit hath a mollifying virtue; therefore it is compared to* fire, which softens the wax: The spirit turns flint into flesh, Ezek. 36. 26. I will give you an heart of flesh. How shall this be effected? Ver. 27. I will put my spirit within you. While the heart is hard, it lies like a log, and is not wrought upon either with judgements or mercies, but when Gods Spirit comes in, it makes a mans heart as tender as his eye, and now it is made yielding to Divine Impressions.
6. The spirit of God hath a corroborating †virtue, it infuseth strength and assistance for work, it is [Greek or Hebrew], a spirit of Power, 2 Tim. 1. 7. Gods spirit carries a man above himself, Eph. 3. 16. Strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man: The spirit confirms faith, animates courage, it lifts at one end of the Cross, and makes it lighter to be* born: The spirit gives not only a sufficiency of strength, but a redundancy.
6. The spirit of God hath a corroborating †virtue, it infuseth strength and assistance for work, it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a spirit of Power,