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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.
1 Let men seriously weigh their misery,§1 1while they remain in a state of ungodliness; which may make them hasten out of this Sodom: the misery of ungodly men appears in nine particulars.
1 Let men seriously weigh their misery,§1 1while they remain in a state of ungodliness; which may make them hasten out of this Sodome: the misery of ungodly men appears in nine particulars.
- 1Motive
1 They are in a state of death, Eph. 2. 1. dead in *Trespasses: dead they must needs be, who are cut off from Christ, the principle of life; for as the body without the soul is dead, so is the soul without Christ. This spiritual death is visible in the effect, it bereaves men of their senses: sinners have no sense of God in them, Ephe. 4. 19. who being without feeling: all their moral endowments, are but strewing flowers upon a dead corpse; and what is hell, but a sepulchre to bury the dead in.
- *Manet hoc porisma, unionē anim e nostrae cum Christo, veram esse & unicā ejus vitam, ac proinde extra Christū nos esse penitus mortuos, quia regnat in nobis pecca•ū mortis material Calvin.