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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.
3. A spiritual Prayer is a fervent* Prayer, Jam. 5. 16. An effectual fervent prayer prevails much. The heart, like the Primum Mobile, should carry the affections in a most zealous and rapid manner; fervency is the wing of Prayer, by which it ascends to heaven; Prayer is expressed by sighs and groans, Rom. 8. 26. It is not so much the gifts of the spirit, as the groans of the spirit God likes: ⟨p. 121⟩Prayer is called a wrestling, Gen. 32. 24. and a pouring out of the Soul, 1 Sam. 1. 15. Prayer is compared to Incense, Psa. 141. 2. Incense without fire makes no sweet smell; Prayer without fervency, is like Incense without fire: Christ prayed with strong cries and tears, Heb. 5. 7. crying Prayer† prevails: When the heart is inflamed in Prayer, a Christian is carried as it were in a Fiery Chariot up to heaven.
3. A spiritual Prayer is a fervent* Prayer, Iam. 5. 16. An effectual fervent prayer prevails much. The heart, like the Primum Mobile, should carry the affections in a most zealous and rapid manner; fervency is the wing of Prayer, by which it ascends to heaven; Prayer is expressed by sighs and groans, Rom. 8. 26. It is not so much the gifts of the spirit, as the groans of the spirit God likes: ⟨p. 121⟩