A65296:944
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.
Object. 1 But I fear I am not bruised enough?
Answ. 'Tis hard to prescribe a just measure of humiliation; it is in the new birth, as in the natural, some bring forth with more pangs, some with fewer; but would you know when you are bruised enough? when your spirit is so troubled, that you are willing to let go those lusts, which did bring in the greatest income of pleasure and delight; when sin is not only discarded, but disgusted, then you have been bruised enough; then the Physic is strong enough, when it hath purged out the disease, then the soul is bruised enough, when the love of sin is purged out.
Answ. 'Tis hard to prescribe a just measure of humiliation; it is in the new birth, as in the natural, some bring forth with more pangs, some with fewer; but would you know when you are bruised enough? when your spirit is so troubled, that you are willing to let go those lusts, which did bring in the greatest income of pleasure and delight; when sin is not only discarded, but disgusted, then you have been bruised enough; then the Physick is strong enough, when it hath purged out the disease, then the soul is bruised enough, when the love of sin is purged out.
Object. 2 But I fear I am not bruised as I should be, I find my heart so hard?
Object. 2 But I fear I am not bruised as I should be, I finde my heart so hard?