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A plea for the Godly

Name: A plea for the Godly
Author: Thomas Watson

A plea for the Godly wherein is shown the excellency of a righteous person / by Thomas Watson ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed by A. Maxwell for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672

[12], 107 p. · 17k words · Wing W1138 · ESTC R10636

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THE Righteous Mans Excellency.

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.

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:87p. 46¶7

7. A righteous man hath more excellent hopes:

:88p. 46

—Credula vitam Spes fovet, & melius cras fore, semper ait.—

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A sinners hope is in this life; he hopes to increase his Estate, he makes the wedge of gold his hope; 'tis a perishing hope, Prov. 11. 7.

A sinners hope is in this life; he hopes to encrease his Estate, he makes the wedg of gold his hope; 'tis a perishing hope, Prov. 11. 7.

:90p. 46–47

But the righteous mans hope excels, his hope is in Christ, his hope is both an helmet, 1 Thes. 5. 8. and an anchor, Heb. 6. 19. while he is fighting with tentation, hope is an helmet; while he is upon the waters of affliction, hope is an anchor; the anchor of a Ship is cast downwards, ⟨p. 47⟩

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