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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.
That I may excite Christians to persevere in the profession of Godliness, I shall propose these four considerations.
THat I may excite Christians to persevere in the profession of Godliness, I shall propose these four considerations.
1 It is the glory and Crown of a Christian, to be grey-headed in godliness, Act. 21. 16. Mnason of Cyprus, an old Disciple: What an honour is it to see a Christians garments red with blood, yet his conscience pu•e white, and his graces green and flourishing?
1 It is the glory and Crown of a Christian, to be gray-headed in godliness, Act. 21. 16. Mnason of Cyprus, an old Disciple: What an honour is it to see a Christians garments red with blood, yet his conscience pu•e white, and his graces green and flourishing?
2 How do sinners persevere in their sins, they are settled on their lees, Zeph. 1. 12. The judgements of God will not deter or remove them; they say to their sin, as Ruth to Naomi, Ruth 1. 16. Where thou goest, I will go, the Lord do so to me, and more, if ought but death part thee and me; so nothing shall part between men and their sins; Oh! what a shame is it, that the wicked should be fixed in evil, and we unfixed in good? that they should be more constant in the Devils service