The Godly Man's Picture

Name: The Godly Man's Picture
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1666

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THE Character of a Godly Man, drawn with a SCRIPTURE-PENCIL. › Chapter 4 › Section 1THE Character of a Godly Man, drawn with a SCRIPTURE-PENSIL. › Chapter 4 › Section 1

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8. The knowledge of a godly man is practic, ⟨p. 21⟩John 10. 4. The Sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Though God requires knowledge more than burnt-offering, Hos. 6. 6, yet it is a knowledge accompanied with obedience: True knowledge doth not only mend a Christians sight, but mends his pace: 'Tis a reproach to a Christian to live in a contradiction to his knowledge; to know he should be strict and holy, yet to live loosely: Not to obey, is all one as not to know, 1 Sam. 2. 12. The Sons of Eli knew not the Lord: they could not but know, for they taught others the knowledge of the Lord; yet they are said not to know, because they did not obey: when Knowledge and Practise, like Castor and Pollux, appear together, then they presage much happiness.

8. The knowledge of a godly man is practick, ⟨p. 21⟩Iohn 10. 4. The Sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Though God requires knowledge more than burnt-offering, Hos. 6. 6, yet it is a knowledge accompanied with obedience: True knowledge doth not only mend a Christians sight, but mends his pace: 'Tis a reproach to a Christian to live in a contradiction to his knowledge; to know he should be strict and holy, yet to live loosly: Not to obey, is all one as not to know, 1 Sam. 2. 12. The Sons of Eli knew not the Lord: they could not but know, for they taught others the knowledge of the Lord; yet they are said not to know, because they did not obey: when Knowledge and Practise, like Castor and Pollux, appear together, then they presage much happiness.

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