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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
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.
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. knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?
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 horrour, he dies with convulsion-fits of conscience; he lives in a calme, but dies in a storme, 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. knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end?
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