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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
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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.
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, Isa. 54. 8. I hid my face for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee. God will not cast off any of his old acquaintance, he will not part with one that hath born him company. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him, Gen. 5. 24. He took him up to ⟨p. 262⟩heaven, as the Arabic renders it; Enoch was lodged in the bosom of divine Love.
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, Isa. 54. 8. I hid my face for a moment, but with everlasting kindeness will I have mercy on thee. God will not cast off any of his old acquaintance, he will not part with one that hath born him company. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him, Gen. 5. 24. He took him up to ⟨p. 262⟩heaven, as the Arabick renders it; Enoch was lodged in the bosome of divine Love.
Quest. How may we do to walk with God?
Answ. 1 Get out of the old road of sin; he that would walk in a pleasant meadow, must turn out of the road. The way of sin is full of Travellers, there are so many travelling in this road, that hell, though it be of a great circumference, is fain to enlarge it self, and make room for them,