A65296:923
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.
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.
- *[Greek or Hebrew] animan contrit••, interpret• tur. Erasm.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 animan contrit••, interpret• tur. Erasm.