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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.
9 Walking with God; is the best way to know the mind of God; friends who walk together, impart their secrets one to another, Psa. 25. 14. The secrets of the Lord, is with them that fear him. Noah walked with God, and the Lord revealed a great secret to him, of destroying the Old World, and saving him in the Ark. Abraham walked with God, Gen. 24. 40. and God made him one of his Privy-council, Gen. 18. 17. Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? God doth sometimes sweetly unbosom himself to the soul in Prayer, and in the holy Supper, as Christ made himself known to the Disciples, in the breaking of bread, Luk. 24. 35
9 Walking with God; is the best way to know the minde of God; friends who walk together, impart their secrets one to another, Psa. 25. 14. The secrets of the Lord, is with them that fear him. Noah walked with God, and the Lord revealed a great secret to him, of destroying the Old World, and saving him in the Ark. Abraham walked with God, Gen. 24. 40. and God made him one of his Privy-council, Gen. 18. 17. Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? God doth sometimes sweetly unbosome himself to the soul in Prayer, and in the holy Supper, as Christ made himself known to the Disciples, in the breaking of bread, Luk. 24. 35
10 They who walk with God, shall never be wholly left of God; the Lord may retire himself for a time, to make his people cry after him the more, but he will not quite leave them,