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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.
Quest. When is a man under the regency and power of hypocrisy?
Answ. There are two signs of its predominancy. 1 A squint eye, when one serves God for sinister ends. 2 A right eye, when there is some sin dear to a man, which he cannot part with. These two are as shrewd signs of an hypocrite, as any I know.
Answ. There are two signes of its predominancy. 1 A squint eye, when one serves God for sinister ends. 2 A right eye, when there is some sin dear to a man, which he cannot part with. These two are as shrewd signes of an hypocrite, as any I know.
Oh let us take Davids candle and lantern, and search for this leaven, and burn it before the Lord.
Oh let us take Davids candle and lanthorn, and search for this leven, and burn it before the Lord.
Christian, if thou mournest for hypocrisy, yet findest this sin so potent, that thou canst not get the mastery of it, go to Christ, beg of him that he would exercise his Kingly Office in thy soul; that he would subdue this sin, and put it under the yoke. Beg of Christ to exercise his spiritual Chirurgery upon thee; desire him to lance thy heart, and cut out the rotten, and that he would apply the medicine of his blood to heal thee of thy hypocrisy. Often make that prayer of David,