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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 Christs not quenching the Smoking Flax?
Quest. What is Christs not quenching the Smoaking Flax?
Answ. The meaning is, though there be but a spark of grace with much sin, Christ will not put out this spark.— In the words there is a figure, He will not *quench, that is, he will increase: Nothing more easy than to quench Smoking Flax, the least touch doth it, but Christ will not quench it; he will not blow the spark of Grace out, but will blow it† up; he will increase it into a flame; he will make this Smoking Flax a burning Taper.
Answ. The meaning is, though there be but a spark of grace with much sin, Christ will not put out this spark.— In the words there is a figure, He will not *quench, that is, he will encrease: Nothing more easie than to quench Smoaking Flax, the least touch doth it, but Christ will not quench it; he will not blow the spark of Grace out, but will blow it† up; he will encrease it into a flame; he will make this Smoaking Flax a burning Taper.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
- †Ellychnium prope extinctum, sufflavit, magis ut clarè arderet. Musculus.