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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 Not to love is very unseasonable; Gods people are in a common calamity, they suffer in one cause, and for them to disagree, is altogether unseasonable; why doth the Lord bring his people together in affliction, but to bring them together in affection? Metals will unite in a furnace, if ever Christians unite, it should be in the furnace of affliction. Chrysostom compares affliction to a shepherds Dog, which makes all the sheep run together: Gods Rod hath this loud voice in it, Love one another; how unworthy is it when Christians are suffering together, to be then striving together.
3 Not to love is very unseasonable; Gods people are in a common calamity, they suffer in one cause, and for them to disagree, is altogether unseasonable; why doth the Lord bring his people together in affliction, but to bring them together in affection? Mettals will unite in a furnace, if ever Christians unite, it should bee in the furnace of affliction. Chrysostome compares affliction to a shepherds Dog, which makes all the sheep run together: Gods Rod hath this loud voice in it, Love one another; how unworthy is it when Christians are suffering together, to be then striving together.
4 Not to love is very Sinful.
1 For Saints not to love, is to live in a contradiction to Scripture; the Apostle is continually beating upon this string of love, as if it made the sweetest music in Religion, Rom. 13. 8. Col. 3. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 22. 1 Joh. 3. 11.