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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. A Spiritual Prayer is such as comes from a broken heart, Psa. 51. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. The Incense was to be beaten, to typify the breaking of the heart in Prayer: 'Tis not the voluble tongue, but the melting heart God accepts: Oh saith a Christian, I cannot pray as others; as Moses said to the Lord, I am not eloquent: But canst thou weep and sigh? Doth thy soul melt out at thy eyes? God accepts broken expressions, when they come from broken hearts. I have read of a Plant that bears no fruit, but it weeps forth a kind of Gum which is very costly: So, though thou dost not flourish with those gifts and expressions as others, yet if thou canst weep forth tears from a contrite heart, these are exceeding precious to God, and he will put them in his bottle▪ Jacob wept in prayer, and had power ever the Angel, Hos. 12. 4.
4. A Spiritual Prayer is such as comes from a broken heart, Psa. 51. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. The Incense was to be beaten, to typifie the breaking of the heart in Prayer: 'Tis not the voluble tongue, but the melting heart God accepts: Oh saith a Christian, I cannot pray as others; as Moses said to the Lord, I am not eloquent: But canst thou weep and sigh? Doth thy soul melt out at thy eyes? God accepts broken expressions, when they come from broken hearts. I have read of a Plant that bears no fruit, but it weeps forth a kind of Gum which is very costly: So, though thou dost not flourish with those gifts and expressions as others, yet if thou canst weep forth tears from a contrite heart, these are exceeding precious to God, and he will put them in his bottle▪ Iacob wept in prayer, and had power ever the Angel, Hos. 12. 4.
5. A spiritual Prayer is a believing Prayer,