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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.
5. Walking with God is honourable; it is a credit for one of an inferior rank to walk with a King: What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to take a turn with God every day.
5. Walking with God is honourable; it is a credit for one of an inferiour rank to walk with a King: What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to take a turn with God every day.
6. Walking with God leads to rest, Heb. 4. 9. There remains a rest for the people of God. The Philosopher saith, Motion tends to *rest. Indeed there is a motion which doth not tend to rest; they who walk with their sins shall never have rest, Re. 4. 8. They rest not day & night: But they that walk with God, shall sit down in the Kingdom of God, Luk. 13. 29. As a weary traveller when he comes home sits down and rests him, Rev. 3. 21. To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my Throne. A Throne denotes Honour, & sitting, denotes rest.
6. Walking with God leads to rest, Heb. 4. 9. There remains a rest for the people of God. The Philosopher saith, Motion tends to *rest. Indeed there is a motion which doth not tend to rest; they who walk with their sins shall never have rest, Re. 4. 8. They rest not day & night: But they that walk with God, shal sit down in the Kingdom of God, Luk. 13. 29. As a weary traveller when he comes home sits down and rests him,