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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 beget grace; Beza acknowledged God laid the foundation of his Conversion in a violent sickness at Paris.
2 They augment grace, the people of God are beholding to their troubles, they had never had so much grace, if they had not met with such sore trials; now, the waters run, and the spices flow forth. The Saints thrive by affliction, as the Lacedaemonians grew rich by war; God makes grace flourish most in the fall of the leaf.
2 They augment grace, the people of God are beholding to their troubles, they had never had so much grace, if they had not met with such sore trials; now, the waters run, and the spices flow forth. The Saints thrive by affliction, as the Lacedemonians grew rich by war; God makes grace flourish most in the fall of the leaf.
3 Afflictions quicken our pace in the way to heaven; it is with us, as with children sent on an errand, if they meet with Apples or Flowers by the way, they linger and make no great haste home, but if any thing fright them, then they run with all the speed they can to their fathers house; so in prosperity, we are gathering the Apples and Flowers, and do not much mind heaven, but if troubles begin to arise, and the times grow frightful, then we make more haste to heaven, and with David; run the way of Gods commandments. Psa. 119. 32.1
3 Afflictions quicken our pace in the way to heaven; it is with us, as with children sent on an errand, if they meet with Apples or Flowers by the way, they linger and make no great haste home, but if any thing fright them, then they run with all the speed they can to their fathers house; so in prosperity, we are gathering the Apples and Flowers, and do not much minde heaven, but if troubles begin to arise, and the times grow frightful, then we make more haste to heaven, and with David; run the way of Gods commandements.