The Godly Man's Picture

Use 3. Let me in the next place direct my self to those,¹ who have a real work of godliness upon their hearts, and I would speak to them by way of, 1 Caution. 2 Counsel. 3 Comfort.

Use 3. LEt me in the next place direct my self to those,¹ who have a real work of godliness upon their hearts, and I would speak to them by way of, 1 Caution. 2 Counsel. 3 Comfort.

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1 By way of Caution, that they do not blur these Characters of grace in their souls; though Gods children cannot quite deface their graces, yet they may disfigure them; too much carnal liberty, may weaken their evidences, and so dim their lustre, that they cannot be read: These Characters of the godly are precious things, the gold and crystal cannot be compared with them. O keep ⟨p. 316⟩them fair written in your hearts! and they will be so many living comforts in a dying hour; it will not affright a Christian, to have all the signs of death in his body, when he can see all the signs of grace in his soul, he will say as Simeon, Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.

1 By way of Caution, that they do not blur these Characters of grace in their souls; though Gods children cannot quite deface their graces, yet they may disfigure them; too much carnal liberty, may weaken their evidences, and so dim their lustre, that they cannot bee read: These Characters of the godly are precious things, the gold and christal cannot be compared with them. O keep ⟨p. 316⟩