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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
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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.
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.
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 Metaphyfical 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.
4 A Minister must be zealous in reproving sin, Tit. 1. 13. Rebuke them sharply. Epiphanius saith of Elijah, he sucked fire out of ⟨p. 220⟩his Mother breasts; a man of God must suck the fire of zeal, out of the breasts of Scripture. Zeal in a Minister, is as proper as fire on the Altar; some are afraid to reprove; like the Sword-fish, which hath a sword in his head, but is without an heart; so they carry the sword of the spirit about them, but have no heart to draw it out in a reproof against sin;1 how many have sown pillows under their people, making them sleep so securely, that they have never waked, till they have been in hell.
4 A Minister must be zealous in reprooving sin, Tit. 1. 13. Rebuke them sharply. Epiphanius saith of Eliah, he sucked fire out of