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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. When God imposeth any evil upon us.
1. We must be patient when God removes any comfort from us: Doth God take away any of our Relations? Ezek. 24. 16. I will take away the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet it is our duty patiently to acquiesce in the Will of God: The loss of a dear Relation, is like the pulling away a Limb from the †body. —Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos.—
1. We must be patient when God removes any comfort from us: Doth God take away any of our Relations? Ezek. 24. 16. I will take away the desire of thine eyes with a stroak; yet it is our duty patiently to acquiesce in the Will of God: The loss of a dear Relation, is like the pulling away a Limb from the †body. —Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos.—
- †Quae arden er diligimus habita graviter suspiraemus ablae•ae.
But grace will make our hearts calm and sedate, and work us to an holy patience under such a severe dispensation. I shall lay down ⟨p. 168⟩eight considerations, which may be as spiritual Physic to kill the worm of impatience under the loss of Relations.