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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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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.
6. Their Temporal Mercies are continued in Judgement: The wicked may have health and estate, yea more than heart can wish, Psa. 73. 7. But their Table is a snare, Psa. 69. 2•. Sinners have their mercies with Gods leave, but not with his love: The people of Israel had better been without their Quails, than to have had such sour sauce. The ungodly are Usurpers, they want a spiritual Title to what they possess; their good things are like cloth taken up at the Drapers, which is not paid for; death will bring in a sad reckoning at last.
6. Their Temporal Mercies are continued in Judgement: The wicked may have health and estate, yea more than heart can wish, Psa. 73. 7. But their Table is a snare, Psa. 69. 2•. Sinners have their mercies with Gods leave, but not with his love: The people of Israel had better been without their Quails, than to have had such sowre sawce. The ungodly are Usurpers, they want a spiritual Title to what they possess; their good things are like cloath taken up at the Drapers, which is not paid for; death will bring in a sad reckoning at last.
7. Their Temporal Judgements are not removed in Mercy: Pharaoh had ten Arrows shot at him (ten Plagues) and all those Plagues were removed, but his heart remaining hard those Plagues were not removed in Mercy; it was not a preservation▪ ⟨p. 279⟩but a reservation: God reserved him for a signal Monument of his Justice, when he was drowned in the depth of the Sea: God may reprieve mens persons when he doth not remit their sins: The wicked may have sparing Mercy, but not saving Mercy.