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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.
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.
1. The profit which comes from a duty performed in a spiritual manner; it infeebles Corruption, it encreaseth 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.
2. The danger of doing duties in an unspiritual manner, they are as if they had not been done; for what the heart doth not do, is not* done: Duties slubbered over, turn ⟨p. 237⟩Ordinances into Judgements: Therefore many, though they are often in duty, they go away worse from duty: If Physic be not well made, and the ingredients rightly tempered, it is as bad as poison for the body: So if duties are not well performed, they leave the heart more hard and sinful than before.
2. The danger of doing duties in an unspiritual manner, they are as if they had not been done; for what the heart doth not do, is not* done: Duties slubbered over, turn ⟨p. 237⟩