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The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…
The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1657
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3. The upright man hath peace1 with the Saints; he hath their good word; they embalm his memory, and erect for him monuments of honour in their hearts. Thus the upright mans end is peace, he is renowned among the people of God; he inherits not their censure, but their praise; he is carried to his grave with a shower of tears.
3. The upright man hath peace1 with the Saints; he hath their good word; they embalme his memory, and erect for him monuments of honour in their hearts. Thus the upright mans end is peace, he is renoun'd among the people of God; he inherits not their censure, but their praise; he is carried to his grave with a shoure of tears.
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Use 1. See a great difference between1 ⟨p. 50⟩the godly and the wicked in their end▪ The end of the upright man is peace, but the end of the wicked is to be cut off, Psal. 37. 38. a wicked mans end is shame and horror, he dies with convulsion-fits of conscience; he lives in a calm, but dies in a storm, Job 27. 20. a tempest steals him away in the night; like those fish Pliny speaks of, which swim along pleasantly till they fall into the mare mortuum, or dead sea; to every sinner I say as Abner to Joab, 2 Sam. 2. 26