The Godly Man's Picture

Name: The Godly Man's Picture
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1666

[6], 363, [11] p. · 82k words · Wing W1124 · ESTC R38514

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THE Character of a Godly Man, drawn with a SCRIPTURE-PENCIL. › Chapter 4 › Section 11THE Character of a Godly Man, drawn with a SCRIPTURE-PENSIL. › Chapter 4 › Section 11

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11. The godly man is an humble man;¹ he is like the Sun in the Zenith, which when it is at the highest shows lowest:² St. Austin calls Humility the Mother of the Graces; but ere I show you who is the humble man, I shall lay down three distinctions.

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1. I distinguish between being humbled and humble; a man may be humbled, and not^* humble;² a sinner may be humbled by affliction, his condition is low, but not his disposition; a godly man is not only humbled, but humble, his heart is as low as his condition.

*Quanti humiliantur & humiles non sunt. Bern.
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2. I distinguish between outward humility and inward; there's a great deal of difference between an humble carriage, and an humble ^†spirit; a person may carry it humbly:

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