The Godly Man's Picture

2. He who rightly applies Christ, fetcheth virtue from him: The Woman in the Gospel having touched Christ, felt virtue coming from him, and her fountain of blood was dried up, Mar. 5. 29. This is to apply Christ, when we feel a sin mortifying virtue flow from him. Naturalists tell us, there is an Antipathy between the Diamond and the Lodestone, insomuch that if a piece of iron be laid by the Diamond, the Diamond will not suffer it to be drawn away by the Lodestone: So that knowledge which is applicatory, hath an antipathy against sin, and will not suffer the heart to be drawn away by it.

2. He who rightly applyes Christ, fetcheth virtue from him: The Woman in the Gospel having touched Christ, felt virtue coming from him, and her fountain of bloud was dried up, Mar. 5. 29. This is to apply Christ, when we feel a sin mortifying virtue flow from him. Naturalists tell us, there is an Antipathy between the Diamond and the Loadstone, insomuch that if a piece of iron be laid by the Diamond, the Diamond will not suffer it to be drawn away by the Loadstone: So that knowledge which is applicatory, hath an antipathy against sin, and will not suffer the heart to be drawn away by it.

5. The knowledge of a godly man is §5transforming, 2 Cor. 3. 8. We all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image. As a Painter, looking upon a face, draws a face like it in the Picture: So looking upon Christ in the glass of the Gospel, we are changed into his similitude. We may look upon other objects that are glorious, yet not be made glorious by them: A deformed face may look upon beauty, and yet not be made beautiful: a wounded man may look upon a Chirurgeon, and yet not be healed; but ⟨p. 20⟩