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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.
4. An humble man is ever preferring Bills of Indictment against himself; he complains not of his condition, but his heart: O this evil heart of unbelief! Lord (saith Hooper) I am hell, but thou art heaven. An hypocrite is ever telling how good he is; an humble soul is ever saying how bad he is: Paul that highflown Saint, who was caught up into the third heaven, how doth this bird of Paradise bemoan himself for his corruptions, ⟨p. 107⟩Rom. 7. 24. O wretched man that I am, &c. Holy Bradford subscribes himself, the hardhearted sinner: The more knowledge an humble Christian hath, the more he complains of ignorance; the more Faith, the more he bewails his* unbelief.
- *Quanto quis plus proficit, eò minus see reputet profecisse. Bern, de mod. Orand.Quanto quis plus proficit, eò minus se reputet profecisse. Bern, de mod. Orand.
5. An humble man will justify God in an afflicted condition, Nehem. 9. 33. Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us. If men oppress and calumniate, the humble soul acknowledgeth Gods righteousness in the midst of severity, 2 Sam. 24. 17. Lo, I have sinned: Lord, my pride, my barrenness, my Sermon-surfeiting hath been the procuring cause of all these judgements; when Clouds are round about God, yet righteousness is the habitation of his Throne, Psa. 97. 2.
5. An humble man will justifie God in an afflicted condition,