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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
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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.
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, 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 Sermonsurfeiting 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.
6. An humble soul is a Christ-Magnifier, Phil. 1. 20. he gives the glory of all his actions to Christ, and Free-grace: King Canutus took the Crown off his own head, and set it upon a Crucifix; so an humble Saint takes the Crown of honour from his own head, and sets it upon Christs; and the reason is, from that […] he bears to Christ; Love can part with […] to the object loved: Isaac loved […] and he gave away his Jewels to† […] humble Saint loves Christ entirely, therefore can part with any thing to