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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. Are they godly,1 who though they have knowledge, yet they know not as they ought to know; they know not God experimentally: How many knowing persons are ignorant? they have Illumination, but not Sanctification; their knowledge hath not a powerful influence upon them to make them better. If you set up an hundred Torches in a garden, they will not make the flowers grow, but the Sun is influential: Many are so far from being better for their knowledge, that they are worse, Isa. 47. 10. Thy knowledge hath perverted thee; the knowledge of most makes them more cunning in sin; these have little cause to glory in their knowledge. Absalom might boast of the hair of his head, but that hanged him; so these may boast of the knowledge of their head, but it will destroy them.
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3. Are they godly,1 who though they have some glimmering of knowledge, yet no fiducial applying of Christ: Many of the Old World knew there was an Ark, but were drowned, because they did not get into the Ark; Knowledge, which is not applying, will but light a man to hell; it were better to live an Indian, than to die an Infidel under the Gospel: Christ not believed in, is terrible. Moses Rod, when it was in his ⟨p. 24⟩hand, did a great deal of good, it wrought Miracles, but when it was out of his hand, it became a Serpent: So Christ, when laid hold on by the hand of Faith, is full of comfort, but not laid hold on, will prove a Serpent to sting.
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