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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
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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.
3. The Reasons of the Proposition.
1. Often in the godly a little grace is mingled with much corruption, Mark 9. 24. Lord I believe, there was some Faith; help my unbelief; there was corruption mixed with it: There are in the best Saints interweavings of sin and grace; a dark side with the light: much pride mixed with humility, much earthliness with heavenliness: Grace in the ⟨p. 330⟩godly doth relish of an old Crabtree stock.
Nay, in many of the Regenerate there is more corruption than grace, so much smoke that you can scarce discern any fire, so much distrust, that you can hardly see any* Faith, so much passion, that you can hardly see any meekness. Jonah a peevish Prophet, he quarrels with God; nay, he justifies his passion, Jonah 4. 9. I do well to be angry to the death. Here was so much passion, that it was hard to see any grace. A Christian in this life, is like a glass that hath more froth than wine; or like a diseased body, that hath more humours than spirits: This may humble the best, to consider how much corruption is interlarded with their grace.
Nay, in many of the Regenerate there is more corruption than grace, so much smoak that you can scarce discern any fire, so much distrust, that you can hardly see any* Faith, so much passion, that you can hardly see any meekness. Ionah a peevish Prophet, he quarrels with God; nay, he justifies his passion,