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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.
4. The sweet promises which God hath made to prayer, Isa. 30. 19. He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry, Jer. 29. 13, 14. Then shall ye go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you; and ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And Isaiah 65. 24. Before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. These promises keep the head of prayer above water; God is bound with his own promises, as Sampson was bound with his own hair.
4. The sweet promises which God hath made to prayer, Isa. 30. 19. He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry, Ier. 29. 13, 14. Then shall ye go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you; and ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And Isaiah 65. 24. Before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. These promises keep the head of prayer above water; God is bound with his own promises, as Sampson was bound with his own hair.
Let us then double our files, and with our Saviour, pray yet more earnestly, Luke 22. 44. Let us be importunate Suitors, and resolve with S. Bernard, that we will not come away from God without* God: prayer is a Petard, which will make heaven gates fly open.