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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
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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 A godly man is much in closet-prayer, he keeps his hours for private devotion; Jacob when he was left alone, wrestled with God, Gen. 32. 24. So when a gracious heart is alone, it wrestles in prayer, and will not leave God till it hath a blessing; a devout Christian exerciseth eyes of faith, and knees of prayer.
2 A godly man is much in closet-prayer, he keeps his hours for private devotion; Iacob when he was left alone, wrestled with God, Gen. 32. 24. So when a gracious heart is alone, it wrestles in prayer, and will not leave God till it hath a blessing; a devout Christian exerciseth eyes of faith, and knees of prayer.
Hypocrites, who have nothing of religion, besides the frontispiece, love to be seen. Christ hath Characterized them, Mat. 6. 5. They love to pray in the corners of the streets, that they may be *seen: The hypocrite is devout in the Temple; there all will gaze on him; but he is a stranger to secret communion with God; he is in the Church a Saint, but in his closet an Atheist; a good Christian holds secret intelligence with heaven: —ille dolet verè, qui sine teste dolet.
Hypocrites, who have nothing of religion, besides the frontispiece, love to bee seen. Christ hath Characterized them, Mat. 6. 5. They love to pray in the corners of the streets, that they may be *seen: The hypocrite is devout in the Temple; there all will gaze on him; but he is a stranger to secret communion with God; he is in the Church a Saint, but in his closet an Atheist; a good Christian holds secret intelligence with heaven: —ille dolet verè, qui sine teste dolet.