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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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These blessed Characters, may comfort a Christian under all worldly dejections, and Diabolical suggestions; Satan tempts a Child of God with this, that he is an hypocrite, and hath no title to the Land of promise; a Christian may pull out these evidences, and put the Devil to prove, that ever any wicked man or hypocrite, had such a fair Certificate ⟨p. 272⟩to show for heaven: Satan may sooner prove himself a liar, than the Saint an hypocrite.
These blessed Characters, may comfort a Christian under all worldly dejections, and Diabolical suggestions; Satan tempts a Childe of God with this, that he is an hypocrite, and hath no title to the Land of promise; a Christian may pull out these evidences, and put the Devil to prove, that ever any wicked man or hypocrite, had such a fair Certificate ⟨p. 272⟩to shew for heaven: Satan may sooner prove himself a lyar, than the Saint an hypocrite.
2 He who hath one of these Characters in truth,1 hath seminally all, he who hath one link of a Chain, hath the whole Chain.
- 12 Conclus.
Object. But may a Child of God say, either I have not all these Characters, or they are so weakly wrought in me, that I cannot discern them?
Object. But may a Childe of God say, either I have not all these Characters, or they are so weakly wrought in me, that I cannot discern them?