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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.
2 Their offerings are polluted; not only the* Ploughing, but the praying of the wicked is sin, Prov. 15. 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: If the water be foul in the well, it cannot be clean in the bucket; if the heart be full of sin, the duties cannot be pure: In what a strait is every ungodly person, if he doth not come to the Ordinance, he is a contemner of it, if he ⟨p. 276⟩doth come, he is a defiler of it.
2 Their offerings are polluted; not only the* Ploughing, but the praying of the wicked is sin, Prov. 15. 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: If the water be foul in the well, it cannot be clean in the bucket; if the heart be full of sin, the duties cannot be pure: In what a strait is every ungodly person, if he doth not come to the Ordinance, he is a contemner of it, if he ⟨p. 276⟩doth come, hee is a defiler of it.
3. Such as live and die ungodly, have no right to the Covenant of Grace, Eph. 2. 12. At that time ye were without Christ, [Greek or Hebrew], strangers from the Covenants of Promise. And to be without Covenant, is to be like one in the old World, without an Ark. The Covenant is the Gospel-Charter, which is enriched with many glorious privileges, but who may plead the benefit of this Covenant? Surely only such whose hearts are in-laid with grace. Read the Charter,