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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. He is godly who is good as a Minister. A Minister must be
1. Painful, 2 Tim. 4. 1, 2. Preach the Word, be instant in season, out of season. The Minister must not be idle; sloth is as inexcusable in a Minister, as sleep in a Sentinel: John Baptist was a voice crying, Mat. 3. 3. A dumb Minister is of no more use than a dead ⟨p. 219⟩Physician: A man of God must work in the Lords† Vineyard: It was Austins wish, that Christ might find him at his coming, either praying or preaching.
1. Painful, 2 Tim. 4. 1, 2. Preach the Word, be instant in season, out of season. The Minister must not be idle; sloath is as inexcusable in a Minister, as sleep in a Centinel: Iohn Baptist was a voice crying, Mat. 3. 3. A dumb Minister is of no more use than a dead ⟨p. 219⟩Physitian: A man of God must work in the Lords† Vineyard: It was Austins wish, that Christ might find him at his coming, either praying or preaching.
- †Oportet Episcopum concionantem mori. B. Jewell.