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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.
5 Thankfulness is a frame of heart God delights in; if repentance be the joy of heaven, praise is the* music. Bernard calls thankfulness the sweet Balm that drops from a Christian.
5 Thankfulness is a frame of heart God delights in; if repentance bee the joy of heaven, praise is the* musick. Bernard calls thankfulness the sweet Balm that drops from a Christian.
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Four Sacrifices God is much pleased with, the sacrifice of Christs blood, the sacrifice of a broken heart, the sacrifice of Alms, and the sacrifice of thanksgiving: Praise and Thanksgiving (saith Mr. Greenham) is the most excellent part of Gods worship, for this shall continue in the heavenly quire, ⟨p. 193⟩when all other exercises of Religion shall cease.
6 What an horrid thing ingratitude is, it gives a dye and tincture to every other sin, and makes it Crimson; ingratitude is the spirits of baseness, Obad. v. 7. They that eat thy bread, have laid a Wound under thee: Ingratitude is worse than brutish,