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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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Use 2.1 As we would evidence our selves to be born of God, let us be of a sublime heavenly temper:2 We shall never go to heaven when we die, unless we are in heaven whilst we live: That we may be more Noble, and raised in our affections, let us seriously weigh these four considerations.
Use 2.1 As we would evidence our selves to be born of God, let us be of a sublime heavenly temper:2 We shall never go to heaven when we die, unless we are in heaven whilest we live: That we may be more Noble, and raised in our affections, let us seriously weigh these four considerations.
- 1Use 2.Vse 2.
- 2Exhort.
1. God himself sounds a retreat to us, to call us off the world, 1 John 2. 15. Love not the world: We may use it as a posy of flowers to smell to, but it must not lie as a bundle of myrrh betwixt our breasts, Rom. 12. 2. Be ye not conformed to this world; do not hunt after the honours and profits of it, and as ⟨p. 148⟩Gods Precepts, so his Providences, are to beat us off the world: Why doth he send War and Pestilence? What means the heat of this great anger? Surely dying times are to make men die to the world.