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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
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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 God intermixeth mercy with affliction, he steeps his-sword of justice in the oil of *mercy, there was no night so dark, but Israel had a Pillar of fire in it; there is no condition ⟨p. 176⟩so dismal, but we may see a Pillar of fire to give light, if the body be in pain, conscience is in peace, there is mercy; affliction is for the prevention of sin, there is mercy: In the Ark there was a rod and a pot of Manna, the Emblem of a Christians condition, mercy interlined with *judgement, here is the rod and Manna.
2 God intermixeth mercy with affliction, hee steeps his-sword of justice in the oyl of *mercy, there was no night so dark, but Israel had a Pillar of fire in it; there is no condition ⟨p. 176⟩so dismal, but we may see a Pillar of fire to give light, if the body be in pain, conscience is in peace, there is mercy; affliction is for the prevention of sin, there is mercy: In the Ark there was a rod and a pot of Manna, the Emblem of a Christians condition, mercy interlined with *judgement, here is the rod and Manna.
- *Vindictae gladium misericordiae oleosemper exacuit.
- *Psa. 101. 1.
3 Patience evidenceth much of God in the heart;