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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.
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.
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 remaini•g 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.
8. The ungodly while they live are exposed to the wrath of God, Joh. 3. 36. He that believeth not, the wrath of God abideth on him. He who wants Grace, is like one who wants a pardon, he is every hour in fear of Execution: How can a wicked man rejoice? Over his head the Sword of Gods Justice hangs, and under him hell fire burns.
8. The ungodly while they live are exposed to the wrath of God, Ioh. 3. 36. He that believeth not, the wrath of God abideth on him. He who wants Grace, is like one who wants a pardon, he is every hour in fear of Execution: How can a wicked man rejoyce? Over his head the Sword of Gods Justice hangs, and under him hell fire burns.