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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.
7 Then we are rightly thankful, when mercy is a whe• to duty, it causeth a spirit of activity for God; Mercy is not as the Sun to the fire, to dull it, but as oil to the wheel, to make it run faster. David wisely argues from mercy to duty, Psal. 116. 8, 9. Thou hast delivered my Soul from death, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. It was a saying of Bernard, Lord I have two Mites, a soul and a body, and I give them both to* thee.
7 Then wee are rightly thankful, when mercy is a whe• to duty, it causeth a spirit of activity for God; Mercy is not as the Sun to the fire, to dull it, but as oyl to the wheele, to make it run faster. David wisely argues from mercy to duty, Psal. 116. 8, 9. Thou hast delivered my Soul from death, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. It was a saying of Bernard, Lord I have two Mites, a soul and a body, and I give them both to* thee.
- *Du•s h• beo min• tias domine, &c. Bern.
8 Then we are rightly thankful, when we excite others to this Angelical work of praise: David would not only bless God himself, but calls upon others to do so, Praise ye the Lord, Psalm. 111. 1. That is the sweetest music, which is in consort; when many Saints join together in consort, then they make heaven ring of their praises; as one drunkard will be calling upon another, so in an holy sense, one Christian must be stirring up another to the work of thankfulness.