A65296:784
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.
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† dead. A godly man should not only honour God while he lives, but do something that may promote Gods glory when he is dead: Our Children being seasoned with gracious Principles, will stand up in our room, when we are gone, and will glorify God in their generation. A good piece of ground doth not only bear a fore-crop, but an after-crop; he that is godly, doth not only bear God a crop of obedience himself while he lives, but by principling his Child with Religion, he bears God an after-crop when he is dead.
2. By endeavouring to bring up our Children in the fear of the Lord, we shall provide for Gods glory when we are†