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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.
6. Are not they proud who are never pleased with their condition? they speak hardly of God, taxing his care and wisdom, as if he had not dealt well with them. A proud man God himself cannot please, but like Momus, he is ever finding fault, and flying in the face of heaven.
Oh let us search if there be none of this leaven of pride in us: Man is Naturally a proud piece of flesh; this sin runs in a blood; our first Parents fell by their Pride, they did aspire after a Deity; there are the seeds of this in the best, but the godly do not allow themselves in it; they labour to kill this weed by mortification. But certainly where this sin is regnant and prevailing, it cannot stand with grace; you may as well call him a prudent man who wants discretion, as a godly man who wants humility.
Oh let us search if there be none of this leven of pride in us: Man is Naturally a proud piece of flesh; this sin runs in a bloud; our first Parents fell by their Pride, they did aspire after a Deity; there are the seeds of this in the best, but the godly do not allow themselves in it; they labour to kill this weed by mortification. But certainly where this sin is regnant and prevailing, it cannot stand with grace; you may as well call him a prudent man who wants discretion, as a godly man who wants humility.
Use 2. Labour for this character;1 be humble. 'Tis an Apostolical Exhortation, 1 Pet. 5. 5. Be clothed with humility. Put it on as an embroidered† robe: better want any thing than humility; better want parts than humility, nay better want the comforts of the Spirit, than want humility.