A65296:925
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 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.
Quest. What is meant by Christs not breaking this† reed?
- †[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
Answ. The sense is, Christ will not discourage any mournful spirit, who is in the pangs of the New-birth: If the bruise of sin be felt, it shall not be mortal: A bruised reed shall he not break. In the words there is a Mi•o••s, he will not break, that is, he will bind up the bruised reed, he will comfort it.