A65296:935
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.
1. Will not Christ break the bruised reed?1 this tacitly implies he will break unbruised reeds;2 such as were never touched with trouble of spirit,3 but live and die in impenitency, these are hard reeds, or rather rocks: Christ will not break a bruised reed, but he will break an hard reed: Many know not what it is to be bruised reeds; they are bruised outwardly by affliction, but they are not bruised for sin; they never knew what the pangs of the New birth meant: You shall hear some thank God they were always quiet, they never had any anxiety of spirit, these bless God for the greatest Curse: Such as are not bruised penitentially, shall be broken judicially; they whose hearts would not break for sin, shall break with despair; in hell there is nothing to be seen but an he•p of stones, and an hammer; an heap of stones, that is hard hearts, and an hammer, that is ⟨p. 312⟩Gods Power and Justice, breaking them in pieces.
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2. Will not Christ break a bruised reed?1 See then the gracious disposition of Jesus Christ, he is full of clemency, and sympathy; though he may bruise the soul for sin, he will not break it: The Chirurgeon may lance the body and make it bleed, but he will bind up the wound; as Christ hath beams of Majesty, so bowels of mercy: Christ gives the Lyon in his Scutcheon, and the Lamb; the Lyon, in respect of his fierceness to the wicked,