A65296:928
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.
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.
In the Text there are two parts: 1. A Supposition, a soul penitentially bruised. 2. A Proposition, it shall not be broken.
Doct. The bruised soul shall not be broken, Psal. 147. 3. He bindeth up their wounds: For this end Christ received both his Mission and Unction, that he might bind up the bruised soul, Isa. 61. 1. The Lord hath anointed me to bind up the broken-hearted▪ But why will not Christ break a bruised reed?