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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.
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.
Doct. That a little grace mixed with much corruption, shall not be quenched. For the illustrating of this, I shall show you