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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.
'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.
7. A spiritual prayer is an humble prayer, Psa. 10. 17. Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble. Prayer is the asking of an Alms, which requires humility, Luke 18. 13. The Publican standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a *sinner. Gods incomprehensible glory may even amaze us, and strike an holy consternation into us when we approach nigh to him, Ezra 9. 6. O my God I blush to lift up my face to thee: 'Tis comely to see a poor nothing lye prostrate at the feet of its Maker, Gen. 18. 27. Behold, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.
- *Quanto cum tremore, quantâ humilitate, accedere debet à Palude sua repens ranuncula vilis Bern. de mod. Orandi.