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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. How shall we know the beloved sin?
Answ. 1 That sin which a man doth not love to have reproved, is the darling Sin. Herod could not endure to have his incest spoken against; if the Prophet meddles with that sin, it shall cost him his head: men can be content to have other sins declaimed against, but if the Minister put his finger upon the sore, and toucheth this sin, their hearts begin to burn in malice against him; a shrewd sign, that is the Herodias.
Answ. 1 That sin which a man doth not love to have reproved, is the darling Sin. Herod could not endure to have his incest spoken against; if the Prophet medles with that sin, it shall cost him his head: men can be content to have other sins declaimed against, but if the Minister put his finger upon the sore, and toucheth this sin, their hearts begin to burn in malice against him; a shrewd sign, that is the Herodias.
2 That sin the thoughts run most upon, is the darling sin; which way the thoughts go, the heart goes; he that is in love with a person, cannot keep his thoughts off the object; examine what sin runs most in your mind, what sin is first in your thoughts, ⟨p. 211⟩and salutes you in the morning, that is the predominant […].
2 That sin the thoughts run most upon, is the darling sin; which way the thoughts go, the heart goes; he that is in love with a person, cannot keep his thoughts off the object; examine what sin runs most in your minde, what sin is first in your thoughts, ⟨p. 211⟩and salutes you in the morning, that is the praedominant .