A65296:672
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.
Quest. Whence do these impertinent thoughts arise in the godly?
Answ. 1 From the pravity of nature, they are the mud which the hear casts up.
2. From Satan; the Devil if he cannot hinder us from duty, •hee will hinder us in duty; when we come before the Lord, he is at our right hand to resist us, Zac. 3. 1. As when one is going to write, another stands at his elbow and jogs him, that he cannot write even; Satan will set vain objects before the fancy, to cause a diversion: the Devil doth not oppose formality but fervency; if he sees we set our selves in good earnest to seek God, he will be whispering things in our ears, that we can scarce mind what we are doing.
2. From Satan; the Devil if he cannot hinder us from duty, •hee will hinder us in duty; when we come before the Lord, he is at our right hand to resist us, Zac. 3. 1. As when one is going to write, another stands at his elbow and jogs him, that he cannot write even; Satan will set vain objects before the fancy, to cause a diversion: the Devil doth not oppose formality but fervency; if he sees we set our selves in good earnest to seek God, he will bee whispering things in our ears, that wee can scarce minde what wee are doing.