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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. What is it to indulge sin?
Answ. 1 To give the breast to it, and feed it; as a fond Parent humours his child, and ⟨p. 207⟩lets him have what he will, so to indulge sin, is to humour sin.
Answ. 1 To give the breast to it, and feed it; as a fond Parent humours his childe, and ⟨p. 207⟩lets him have what he will, so to indulge sin, is to humour sin.
2 To indulge sin, is to commit it with delight, 1 Thess. 2. 12. They have pleasure in unrighteousness.
In this sense a godly man doth not indulge sin; though sin be in him, he is troubled at it, and would fain get rid of it; there is as much difference between sin in the wicked, and the godly, as between poison being in a Serpent, and in a Man; Poison in a Serpent, is in its natural place, and is delightful: But poison in a mans body is offensive, and he useth Antidotes to expel it. So sin in a wicked man is delightful, being in its natural place, but sin in a child of God is burdensome, and he useth all means to expel it. This pares off from the sin; the will is against it. A godly man enters his protest against sin,