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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.
6. A Spiritual Prayer is an holy Prayer, 1 Tim. 2. 8. Wherefore lift up pure hands: Prayer must be offered upon the Altar of a pure heart; sin lived in, makes the heart hard, and Gods ear deaf; sin stops the mouth of Prayer, it doth as the Thief to the Traveller, puts a Gag in his mouth, that he cannot speak; sin poisons and infects prayer: A wicked mans prayer is sick of the Plague, and will God come near him? The Lodestone loseth its virtue, when it is bespread with Garlic: so doth prayer, when it is polluted with sin, Psa 66. 18. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.
6. A Spiritual Prayer is an holy Prayer, 1 Tim. 2. 8. Wherefore lift up pure hands: Prayer must be offered upon the Altar of a pure heart; sin lived in, makes the heart hard, and Gods ear deaf; sin stops the mouth of Prayer, it doth as the Thief to the Traveller, puts a Gagg in his mouth, that he cannot speak; sin poysons and infects prayer: A wicked mans prayer is sick of the Plague, and will God come neer him? The Loadstone loseth its virtue, when it is bespread with Garlick: so doth prayer, when it is polluted with sin, Psa 66. 18. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.
'Tis foolish to pray against sin, and then to sin against prayer; a spiritual prayer, like the spirits of Wine, must be refined, and taken off the Lees and dregs of sin, Mal. 3. 3. That they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness: If the heart be holy, this Altar will sanctify the gift.
'Tis foolish to pray against sin, and then to sin against prayer; a spiritual prayer, like the spirits of Wine, must be refined, and taken off the Lees and dregs of sin, Mal. 3. 3. That they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness: If the heart be holy, this Altar will sanctifie the gift.