The Godly Man's Picture

5. The godly are the bull-wark of a Nation, 2 Kin. 2. 12. O my Father, the Chariots ⟨p. 287⟩of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. The godly are the Pillars to keep a City and Nation from falling; they stave off Judgement from a Land: It was said of old, so long as Hector lived, Troy could not be demolished: God could do nothing to Sodom till Lot was gone out of it, Genesis 19. 22. Golden Christians are Brazen Walls. The Lord would soon break up house in the world, were it not for the sakes of a few Religious ones: Would God (think we) preserve the world only for Drunkards and Swearers? He would soon sink the Ship of Church and State, but that some of his Elect are in it: Yet such is the indiscretion of men as to injure the Saints, and to count them burdens which are the chief^* blessings.

5. The godly are the bull-wark of a Nation, 2 Kin. 2. 12. O my Father, the Chariots ⟨p. 287⟩of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. The godly are the Pillers to keep a City and Nation from falling; they stave off Judgement from a Land: It was said of old, so long as Hector lived, Troy could not be demolished: God could do nothing to Sodom till Lot was gone out of it, Genesis 19. 22. Golden Christians are Brazen Walls. The Lord would soon break up house in the world, were it not for the sakes of a few Religious ones: Would God (think we) preserve the world only for Drunkards and Swearers? He would soon sink the Ship of Church and State, but that some of his Elect are in it: Yet such is the indiscretion of men as to injure the Saints, and to count them burdens which are the chief^* blessings.