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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. 1. By showing us that we are in a state of Grace: A Christian cannot always ⟨p. 95⟩see his riches; the work of Grace may be written in the heart like short-hand, which a Christian cannot read; the spirit gives him a Key to open these dark Characters, and spell out his Adoption, whereupon he hath joy and peace, 1 Cor. 2. 12. We have received the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things which are freely given to us of God.
2. The spirit comforts, by giving us some ravishing apprehensions of Gods love, Rom. 5. 5. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. Gods love is a box of precious ointment, and it is only the spirit can break open this box, and fill us with the sweet perfume of it.
2. The spirit comforts, by giving us some ravishing apprehensions of Gods love, Rom. 5. 5. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. Gods love is a box of precious oyntment, and it is only the spirit can break open this box, and fill us with the sweet perfume of it.
3. The spirit comforts, by carrying us to the Blood of Christ; as when a man is weary and ready to faint, carry him to the water, and he is refreshed: so when we are fainting under the burden of sin, the spirit carries us to the Fountain of Christs Blood, Zac. 12. 1. In that day there shall be a Fountain opened, &c. The spirit enables us to drink the waters of Justification which run out of Christs sides: The spirit applies whatever Christ hath purchased, it shows us that our sins are done away in Christ, and though we are spotted in our selves, we are undefiled in our head.