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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.
1. They make men sober and wise: Physicians appoint distracted persons to be bound in Chains, and to be dieted, and have hard fare to bring them to the use of reason: Many run stark mad in prosperity, they neither know God nor themselves; the Lord therefore binds them with cords of affliction, that he may bring them to their right* understandings, Job 36. 8. If they be held in cords of affliction, then he shows them their transgression, he openeth also their ear to discipline.
1. They make men sober and wise: Physitians appoint distracted persons to be bound in Chains, and to be dieted, and have hard fare to bring them to the use of reason: Many run stark mad in prosperity, they neither know God nor themselves; the Lord therefore binds them with cords of affliction, that he may bring them to their right* understandings, Iob 36. 8. If they be held in cords of affliction, then he shews them their transgression, he openeth also their ear to discipline.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Chrysost.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Chrysost.
2 Afflictions are a friend to grace.
1 They beget grace; Beza acknowledged God laid the foundation of his Conversion in a violent sickness at Paris.