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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.
Answ. 1. Let the Soul be kept a Virgin; lust doth besot and dis-spirit a man; beware of any tincture of uncleanness, Jam. 1. 21. Wood that is full of sap will not easily burn; and an heart steeped in sin, is not fit to burn in holy devotion. Can he be spiritual in worship, who feeds carnal lust? Hos. 4. 11. Whoredom and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Any sin lived in takes away the heart; such an one hath no heart to pray, or meditate: The more alive the heart is in sin, the more it dies to duty.
Answ. 1. Let the Soul be kept a Virgin; lust doth besot and dis-spirit a man; beware of any tincture of uncleanness, Iam. 1. 21. Wood that is full of sap will not easily burn; and an heart steeped in sin, is not fit to burn in holy devotion. Can he be spiritual in worship, who feeds carnal lust? Hos. 4. 11. Whoredome and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Any sin lived in takes away the heart; such an one hath no heart to pray, or meditate: The more alive the heart is in sin, the more it dies to duty.
2. If we would be spiritual in duty, let us revolve these two things in our mind.
1. The profit which comes from a duty performed in a spiritual manner; it enfeebles Corruption, it increaseth Grace, it defeats Satan, it strengthens our Communion with God, it breeds peace of Conscience, it procures Answers of Mercy, and it leaves the heart always in a better tune.