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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.
Quest. What is to be understood here by a Reed?
Quest. What is to bee understood here by a Reed?
Answ. It is not to be taken literally, but mystically, It is a Rational Reed; the Spiritual part of man; the Soul, which may well be compared to a Reed, because it is subject to imbecility, and shaking in this life, till it grow up unto a firm Cedar in Heaven.
Answ. It is not to bee taken litterally, but mystically, It is a Rational Reed; the Spiritual part of man; the Soul, which may well bee compared to a Reed, because it is subject to imbecility, and shaking in this life, till it grow up unto a firm Cedar in Heaven.
Quest. What is meant by a bruised Reed?
Answ. It is a soul humbled and bruised in ⟨p. 319⟩the sense of* sin, it weeps, but doth not despair, it is tossed upon the waves of fear, yet not without the Anchor of Hope.