A65296:929
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.
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?
1. Out of the sweetness of his Nature,1 ⟨p. 320⟩Jam. 5. 11. the Lord is [Greek or Hebrew], very pitiful; he begets bowels in other creatures, therefore is called the Father of mercies, 2 Cor. 1. 3. and surely he himself is not without bowels; when a poor soul is afflicted in spirit, God will not exercise harshness towards it, lest he should be thought to put off his own tender disposition.
1. Out of the sweetness of his Nature,1 ⟨p. 320⟩