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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.
Use 1. Is a godly man of a praying spirit?1 then this excludes them from being godly,
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1. Who pray not at all: Their houses are unhallowed houses; 'tis made the note of a Reprobate, he calls not upon God, Psal. 14. 4. Doth that indigent creature think to have an Alms who never asks it? Do they think to have mercy from God who never seek it? Truly then God should befriend them more than he did his own Son; he offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries, Heb. 5. 7. None of Gods Children are tongue tied, Gal. 4. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent ⟨p. 127⟩forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba Father. Creatures by the instinct of Nature cry to God, Psal. 147. 9. The young Ravens which cry: Psal. 104. 21. The Lyons seek their meat from God: Not to cry to God, is worse than brutish.
1. Who pray not at all: Their houses are unhallowed houses; 'tis made the note of a Reprobate, he calls not upon God, Psal. 14. 4. Doth that indigent creature think to have an Alms who never asks it? Do they think to have mercy from God who never seek it? Truly then God should befriend them more than he did his own Son; he offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryes,