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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.
2. It is not patience upon force; to bear a thing because we cannot help it; which (as Erasmus saith) is rather necessity than patience. But, patience is a cheerful submission of our will to God, Act. 21. 4. The will of the Lord be done. A godly man doth acquiesce in what God doth, as being not only good, but best for him: The great quarrel between God and us is, whose will shall stand: Now the Regenerate will, falls in with the will of God: •here are four things opposite to this patient •ame of soul.
1. Disquiet of spirit: When the soul is discomposed, and pulled off the hinges, insomuch that it is unfit for holy duties; when the strings of a Lute are snarled, the Lute is not fit to make Music; so when a Christians spirit is perplexed and disturbed, he cannot make melody in his heart to the Lord.
1. Disquiet of spirit: When the soul is discomposed, and pulled off the hinges, insomuch that it is unfit for holy duties; when the strings of a Lute are snarled, the Lute is not fit to make Musick; so when a Christians spirit is perplexed and disturbed, he cannot make melody in his heart to the Lord.
2. Discontent; which is a sullen dogged humour: When a man is not angry at his sins, but at his condition, this is different from patience: Discontent is the daughter of pride.