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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.
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, Rev. 3. 21. To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my Throne. A Throne denotes Honor, & sitting, denotes rest.
- *Motus tendit ad quietem.
7. Walking with God is the most safe walking: Walking in the ways of sin, is like walking upon the edge of a River: The sinner treads upon the banks of the bottomless Pit, and if Death gives him a jog, he tumbles in; but it is safe going in Gods way,