A65296:926
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 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.
The result of the whole is, to show Christs compassion to a poor dejected sinner, that smites upon his breast, and dares hardly lift up his eye for mercy, the bowels of the Lord Jesus yearn towards him, this bruised reed he will not break.
The result of the whole is, to show Christs compassion to a poor dejected sinner, that smites upon his breast, and dares hardly lift up his eye for mercy, the bowels of the Lord Jesus yern towards him, this bruised reed he will not break.