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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. If you have this spirit do not grieve it, Eph. 4. 30. Shall we grieve our Comforter?
Quest. How do we grieve the Spirit?
Answ. 1. When we unkindly repel the motions of it: The spirit sometimes whispers in our ears, and calls to us as God did to Jacob, Gen. 35. 1. Arise, go to Bethel. So saith the spirit, Arise, go to prayer, retire thy self to meet thy God: Now when we stifle these motions, and entertain temptations to vanity, this is a grieving of the spirit; if we check the motions of the spirit, we shall lose the comforts of the spirit.
Answ. 1. When we unkindly repel the motions of it: The spirit sometimes whispers in our ears, and calls to us as God did to Iacob, Gen. 35. 1. Arise, go to Bethel. So saith the spirit, Arise, go to prayer, retire thy self to meet thy God: Now when we stifle these motions, and entertain temptations to vanity, this is a grieving of the spirit; if we check the motions of the spirit, we shall lose the comforts of the spirit.