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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.
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 〈…〉.
3 That sin which hath most power over us, and doth most easily lead us captive, that is the beloved of the soul; there •re some sins a man can make better resistance against; if they come for entertainment, he can more easily put them off; but there is one sin, if that comes to be a suitor, he cannot deny it, but is overcome by it, this is the bosom sin. The young man in the Gospel, had given a repulse to many sins, but there was one sin foiled him, that was covetousness: Christians, mark what sins you are soonest led captive by, that is the Harlot in your bosom. 'Tis a sad thing that a man should be so bewitched by lust, that if it ask to part with, not only half the Kingdom, 1but the whole Kingdom of heaven, he must part with it, to gratify that lust.
3 That sin which hath most power over us, and doth most easily lead us captive, that is the beloved of the soul; there •re some sins a man can make better resistance against; if they come for entertainment, he can more easily put them off; but there is one sin, if that comes to be a suitor, hee cannot deny it, but is overcome by it, this is the bosome sin. The young man in the Gospel, had given a repulse to many sins, but there was one sin foiled him, that was covetousness: Christians, mark what sins you are soonest led captive by, that is the Harlot in your bosome. 'Tis a sad thing that a man should bee so bewitched by lust, that if it ask to part with, not only half the Kingdome,