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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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3 Patience evidenceth much of God in the heart;1 patience is one of Gods titles; Rom. 15. 5. The God of patience; thou that hast thy heart cast into this blessed mould, it is a sign God hath imparted much of his own nature to thee, thou shinest with some of his beams.
- 13 Argument.
Impatience evidenceth much unsoundness of heart; as it is in the body, if the body be of that temper, that every little scratch of a pin makes the flesh to rankle, you will say, sure this mans flesh is very unsound; so for every petty cross to fly out in impatience, and quarrel with providence, it is the sign of a distempered Christian; if there be any grace in such an heart, they must have good eyes that can see it; but he who is of a patient spirit, is a graduate in Religion, and doth much participate of the divine nature.
Impatience evidenceth much unsoundness of heart; as it is in the body, if the body bee of that temper, that every little scratch of a pin makes the flesh to rancle, you will say, sure this mans flesh is very unsound; so for every petty cross to flye out in impatience, and quarrel with providence, it is the sign of a distempered Christian; if there be any grace in such an heart, they must have good eyes that can see it; but he who is of a patient spirit, is a graduate in Religion, and doth much participate of the divine nature.
4 The end of affliction is glorious;1