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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.
Gods Writing is always before his Seal, 2 Cor. 3. 3. Ye are declared to be the Epistle of Christ, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in Tables of stone, but in fleshy Tables of the heart. Here is a golden Epistle, the writing is the work of Faith, the Table it is written in, is the heart, the finger that writes it is the spirit: Now, after the Spirits writing, follows the Spirits sealing, Ephes. 1. 13. After the believed ye were sealed with the Spirit; that is, ye were sealed up to ⟨p. 277⟩an assurance of glory: What have ungodly men to do with the seal of the Covenant, who have not the writing?
Gods Writing is always before his Seal, 2 Cor. 3. 3. Ye are declared to be the Epistle of Christ, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in Tables of stone, but in fleshy Tables of the heart. Here is a golden Epistle, the writing is the work of Faith, the Table it is written in, is the heart, the finger that writes it is the spirit: Now, after the Spirits writing, follows the Spirits sealing, Ephes. 1. 13. After ye believed ye were sealed with the Spirit; that is, ye were sealed up to ⟨p. 277⟩an assurance of glory: What have ungodly men to do with the seal of the Covenant, who have not the writing?
4. The ungodly are spiritual fools; Psalm 75. 4. I said to the fools deal not foolishly, and to the wicked, lift not up the