A65296:637
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. 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, 1 Sam. 9. 9. 'Tis absurd to have our Seers blind: Christ said to Peter, Feed my sheep, Joh. 21. 16. But how sad is it when the Shepherds need to be fed? Ignorance in a Minister, is like blindness in an Oculist. Under the Law, he who had the plague in his head was unclean, Levit. 13. 44.
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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an Ocean of Divinity. The Prophets of old were called Seers, 1 Sam. 9. 9. 'Tis absurd to have our Seers blind: Christ said to Peter, Feed my sheep, Ioh. 21. 16. But how sad is it when the Shepherds need to be fed? Ignorance in a Minister, is like blindness in an Oculist. Under the Law, he who had the plague in his head was unclean, Levit. 13. 44.
3. A Minister must preach plain, suiting his matter and stile to the capacity of his Auditory, 1 Cor. 14. 19. Some Ministers, like Eagles, love to soar aloft in abstruse Metaphysical notions; thinking they are most admired, when they are least understood; they who preach in the Clouds, instead of hitting their peoples Conscience, shoot over their heads.