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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.
3. The Reasons why Christ will not quench the smoking flax.
3. The Reasons why Christ will not quench the smoaking flax.
1. Because this Scintilla, this little light which is in the smoking flax is of divine production, ⟨p. 331⟩it comes from the Father of Lights, and the Lord will not quench the work of […] own grace: Every thing by the instinct of Nature will preserve its* own: The Hen that hatcheth her young, will preserve and cherish them, she will not destroy them as soon as they are hatched: God who hath put this tenderness into the Creature to preserve its young, will much more cherish the work of his own spirit in the heart: Will he light up the Lamp of Grace in the soul, and then put it out? This would be neither for his interest nor honour.
1. Because this Scintilla, this little light which is in the smoaking flax is of divine production, ⟨p. 331⟩it comes from the Father of Lights, and the Lord will not quench the work of 〈…〉 own grace: Every thing by the instinct of Nature will preserve its* own: The Hen that hatcheth her young, will preserve and cherish them, she will not destroy them as soon as they are hatched: God who hath put this tenderness into the Creature to preserve its young, will much more cherish the work of his own spirit in the heart: Will he light up the Lamp of Grace in the soul, and then put it out? This would be neither for his interest nor honor.
- *Omne agens est ful conservativum.