A65296:303
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.
Consider how needful the spirit is, 1without it we can do nothing acceptably to God.
- 1Motive
1 We cannot pray without it; 'tis a spirit of Supplication, Zac. 12. 10. It both helps the invention, and the affection, Rom. 8. 26. The spirit helps us with sighs and *groans.
1 VVe cannot pray without it; 'tis a spirit of Supplication, Zac. 12. 10. It both helps the invention, and the affection, Rom. 8. 26. The spirit helps us with sighs and *groans.
- *Suspiria haec & gemitus, à caelesti columba didicerunt sancti. Aug.
2. We cannot resist temptation without it, Act. 1. 8. Ye shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you: He who hath the tide of corrupt nature, and the wind of temptation, must needs be carried down the stream of sin, if the contrary wind of the spirit doth not blow.