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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.
The time of Childhood is the fittest time to be sowing seeds of Religion in our Children, Isa. 28. 9. Whom shall he make understand Doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn from the breasts. The Wax, while it is soft and tender, will take any impression: Children while they are young will fear a reproof, when they are old they will hate it,
1. It is pleasing to God that our Children should know him betimes: When you come into a garden, you love to pluck the young bud, and smell to it; God loves a Saint in the bud; of all the Trees the Lord made choice of in a Prophetical Vision, it was the Almond Tree, which blossoms one of the first of the* Trees: Such an Almond Tree is an early Convert.
1. It is pleasing to God that our Children should know him betimes: When you come into a garden, you love to pluck the young bud, and smell to it; God loves a Saint in the bud; of all the Trees the Lord made choice of in a Prophetical Vision, it was the Almond Tree, which blossomes one of the first of the* Trees: Such an Almond Tree is an early Convert.
2. By endeavouring to bring up our Children in the fear of the Lord, we shall provide for Gods glory when we are†