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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.
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.
2. A Minister must be knowing, Mal. 2. 7. The Priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth. It was said in the honour of Nazianzene, that he was [Greek or Hebrew], an Ocean of Divinity. The Prophets of old were called Seers,