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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.
This knowledge is comfortable;1 we may say of the Knowledge of Nature, as Solomon, §2Eccles. 1. 18. He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. The knowledge of Arts and Sciences is gathering of straw, but the knowledge of God in Christ is gathering of Pearl. This Knowledge ushers in Salvation, 1 Tim. 2. 4.
This knowledge is comfortable;1 we may say of the Knowledge of Nature, as Solomon, §2Eccles. 1. 18. He that encreaseth knowledge, encreaseth sorrow. The knowledge of Arts and Sciences is gathering of straw, but the knowledge of God in Christ is gathering of Pearl. This Knowledge ushers in Salvation, 1 Tim. 2. 4.
- 1Motive
Quest. But how shall we get this Saving Knowledge?
Answ. Not by the power of Nature: Some speak of Reason well improved how far it will go; but alas the plumb-line of Reason is too short to fathom the deep things of God: A man can no more by the power of Reason reach the Saving Knowledge of God, than a Pygmy can reach the Pyramids: The Light of Nature will no more help us to see Christ, than the light of a Candle will help us to understand,