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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. How shall I get my heart tuned into a patient frame?
Answ. 1 Get faith; all our impatience proceeds from unbelief; faith is the breeder of patience, when a storm of passion begins to arise, faith saith to the heart, as Christ to the Sea, peace, be still, and there is presently a calm.
Quest. How doth faith work patience?
Answ. Faith argues the soul into patience; faith is like that Town-Clark in Ephesus, who allayed the contention of the multitude, and argued them soberly into peace, Act. 19. 35, 36. So when impatience begins to clamour and make an hubbub in the soul; faith appeaseth the tumult, and argues the soul into holy patience: Saith faith, Why art thou disquieted O my Soul? art thou afflicted? is it not thy Father hath done it? he is carving and polishing thee, and making thee fit for ⟨p. 178⟩glory, he smites that he may save; what is thy trial, is it sickness? God shakes the Tree of thy body, that some fruit may fall, even the peaceable fruit of righteousness,