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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.
The Apostle gives a good reason, why there should be mutual love between Husband and Wife, 1 Pet. 3. 7. That your prayers be not hindered: where passions prevail, there prayer is either intermitted, or interrupted.
The Apostle gives a good reason, why there should be mutual love between Husband and Wife, 1 Pet. 3. 7. That your prayers bee not hindred: where passions prevail, there prayer is either intermitted, or interrupted.
4 He is godly who is good, as a Father.
1 A Father must drop holy instructions into his Children, Eph. 6 4. Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord: Thus did Abraham, Gen. 18. 19. I know Abraham, that he will command his children, and his household, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. Children are young plants, which must be watered with good education, that they may with Obadiah, fear the Lord from their youth up, 1 Kings 18. 12. Plato saith, in vain doth he expect an harvest, who hath been negligent in sowing; nor can a parent look to reap any good from a child, where he hath not sown the seed of wholesome instruction; and though notwithstanding all counsel and admonition, the child should dye in sin, yet it is a comfort to a godly Parent, ⟨p. 223⟩