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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.
Answ. 1 When we are careful to register Gods mercy, 1 Chron. 16. 4. David appointed certain of the Levites, to record and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel. Physicians say, the memory is the first thing that† decays; 'tis true in spirituals, Psal. 106. 13. They soon forgot his works: A godly man enters down his mercies, as a Physician his receipts into a book, that they may not be lost. Mercies are Jewels that should be locked up; A child of God keeps two books always by him, one to write his sins in, that he may be humble, the other to write his mercies in, that he may be thankful.
Answ. 1 When wee are careful to register Gods mercy, 1 Chron. 16. 4. David appointed certain of the Levites, to record and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel. Physitians say, the memory is the first thing that† decayes; 'tis true in spirituals, Psal. 106. 13. They soon forgat his works: A godly man enters down his mercies, as a Physician his receipts into a book, that they may not bee lost. Mercies are Jewels that should be locked up; A childe of God keeps two books alwaies by him, one to write his sins in, that he may be humble, the other to write his mercies in, that he may be thankful.
- †Memory primo senescit.Memori• primo senescit.
2 Then we are rightly thankful, when our hearts are the chief instrument in the music of praise,