A65296:767
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.
SECT. XXIV.
24 He who is godly,1 labours to be an instrument of making others godly; he is not ⟨p. 264⟩content to go to heaven alone, but would bring others thither; Spiders work only for themselves, but Bees work for others: A godly man is both a Diamond and a Load-stone; a Diamond for the sparkling lustre of grace, and a Load-stone for his attractiveness, he is ever drawing others to the embracing of Piety: Living things have a propagating virtue; where Religion lives in the heart, there will be an endeavour to propagate the life of grace, in those we converse with, Philemon v. 10. My son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds. Though God be the fountain of grace, yet the Saints are pipes to transmit living streams to others. This thirsty endeavour after the conversion of souls, proceeds,
- 124 Character.
1 From the nature of Godliness; it is like fire, which assimilates and turns every thing into its own nature; where there is the fire of grace in the heart, it will endeavour to inflame others; grace is an holy leaven, which will be seasoning and leavening others with divine principles. Paul would fain have converted Agrippa; how did he court him with Rhetoric?