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The godly mans picture drawn with a scripture-pensil, or, Some characteristical notes of a man that shall go to heaven by Thomas Watson ...
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Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.
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how many have sown pillows under their people making them sleep so securely that they have never waked till they have been in hell 5 A Minister must bee holy in heart and life 1 In heart How sad is it for a Minister to preach that to others which he never felt in his own soul to exhort others to holiness and himself a stranger to it O that it were not thus too often how many blow the Lords Trumpet with a foul breath 2 In Life The Priests under the Law before they served at the Altar washed in the Lavor such as serve in the Lords house must first bee washed from gross sin in the Lavor of repentance The life of a Minister should be a walking Bible Basil said of Nazianzene he did thunder in his doctrine and lighten in his conversation A Minister must imitate Iohn Baptist who was not only a voice crying Isa â— 3. but a light shining Ioh. 5. 35. they disgrace this excellent calling who live in a contradiction to what they preach they turn their codices into calices their books into cups and though they are Angels by office yet are Devils in their lives Ier. 23. 15. 3. Hee is godly who is good as an Husband he fills up that relation with love Eph. 5. 25. Husbands love your Wives The Vine twisting its branches about the Elm and embracing it may be an emblem of that intire love which should be in the conjugal relation a married condition would be sad if it hath cares to imbitter it and not love to sweeten it Love is the best diamond in the marriage Ring Isaac loved Rebeckah Gen. 24. 57. Unkindnesses in this near relation are very unhappy Wee read in Heathen Authors that Clitemnestra the wife of Agamemnon to revenge an injury received from her Husband first rent the Vail of her chastity and afterwards consented to his death The Husband should shew his love to his Wife by covering infirmities by avoiding occasions of strife by sweet endearing expressions by pious counsel by love-tokens by incouraging what he sees amiable and vertuous in her by mutual prayer by associating with her unless detained by urgency of business The Pilot that goes from his ship and quite leaves it to the merciless waves declares that he doth not esteem it or reckon any treasure to be in it The Apostle gives a good reason why there should be mutual love between Husband and Wife 1 Pet. 3. 7. That your prayers bee not hindred where passions prevail there prayer is either intermitted or interrupted 4 He is godly who is good as a Father 1 A Father must drop holy instructions into his Children Eph. 6 4. Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Thus did Abraham Gen. 18. 19. I know Abraham that hee will command his children and his houshold and they shall keep the way of the Lord. Children are young plants which must be watered with good education that they may with Obadiah fear the Lord from their youth up 1 Kings 18. 12. Plato saith in vain doth he expect an harvest who hath been negligent in sowing nor can a parent look to reap any good from a childe where he hath not sown the seed of wholesome instruction and though notwithstanding all counsel and admonition the childe should dye in sin yet it is a comfort to a godly Parent to think that before his childe dyed he gave it spiritual physick 2. A parent must pray for his Children Monica the Mother of Austin prayed for his Conversion and one said It was impossible a Son of so many Prayers and Tears should miscarry The soul of thy Childe is in a snare and wilt not thou pray that it may bee recovered out of the snare of the Devil 2 Tim. 2. 26. many Parents are careful to lay up portions for their children but they do not lay up prayers for them 3 A Parent must give his children discipline Prov. 23. 13. Withhold not correction from the childe for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not dye The rod beats out the dust and moth of sin a childe indulg'd and humoured in wickedness will prove a burden instead of a blessing David cockered Adonijah 1 King 1. 6. His Father had not displeased him at any time saying why hast thou done so and hee afterwards was a grief of heart to his Father and would have put him besides his throne correction is a hedge of thorns to stop Children in their full Carâ—eir to hell 5 He is godly who is good as a Master a godly man promotes religion in his family he sets up piety in his house as well as in his heart Psalm 101. 2. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart Ioshua 24. 15. I and my houshold will serve the Lord. I find it written in the honor of Cranmer his Family was Palaestra Pietatis a Nursery of Piety A godly mans house is a little Church Col. 4. 15. The Church which is in his house 1. A good man makes known the Oracles of God to them who are under his roof he reads the Word perfumes his house with prayer It is recorded of the Iews that they had sacrifices in their Family as well as in the Tabernacle Exod. 12. 3. 2. A godly man provides necessaries he relives his servants in health and Sickness he is not like that Amalakite who shook off his servant when he was sick 1 Sam. 30. 13. But rather like the good Centurion who sought to Christ for the healing of his sick servant Mat. 8. 5. 3. A godly man sets his servants a good example he is sober and heavenly in his deportment his virtuous life is a fair glass for the servants in the family to dress themselves by 6. He is godly who is good in the Relation of a Childe He honours his parents Philo the Jew placed the fifth Commandment in the first Table as if Children had not performed their whole devotion to God till they had given honour to their Parents This honouring of Parents consists in two things 1. In reverencing their persons which reverence is shown both by humility of speech and gesture The contrary to this is when a Childe doth behave himself unseemly and proudly Among the Lacedemonians if a Childe had carried himself imperiously towards his parent it was published by Authority that it was lawful for the Father to appoint whom he would to be his Heir and to dis-inherit that Childe 2. Honoring of Parents lies in obeying their Commands Eph. 6. 1. Children obey your Parents in the Lord. Duty is the Interest money which children pay their Parents for the Principal they have had from them Christ hath set all Children a pattern of obedience to their Parents Luke 2. 51. He was subject unto them The Rechabites were eminent for this Ierem. 35. 5. 1 set before the Rechabites pots full of wine and said to them drink ye wine but they said we will
conversion of others out of a spirit of compassion Grace makes the heart tender a godly man cannot chuse but pitty such as are in the gall of bitterness he sees what a deadly cup is a brewing for the wicked they must without repentance be bound over to Gods wrath the fire which rained on Sodome was but a painted fire in comparison of hell-fire this is a fire with a vengeance Iude 7. Suffering the Vengeance of eternal fire now a godly man seeing captive Sinners ready to be damned labours to convert them from the errour of their way 2 Cor. 5. 11. Knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men 3 A godly man endeavours the good of others out of an holy zeal he bears to Christs glory the glory of Christ is dear to him as his own salvation therefore that this may be promoted he labours Summo conatu to bring in souls to Christ. 'T is a glory to Christ when multitudes are born to him every star adds a lustre to the sky every convert is a member added to Christs body and a jewel adorning his Crown Though Christs glory cannot be encreased as he is God yet as he is Mediatour it may the more are saved the more Christ is exalted why else should the Angels rejoyce at the Conversion of a Sinner but because now Christs glory shines the more Use 1. This excludes them from the number of godly who are spiritual Eunuchs they labour not to promote the Salvation of others Nascitur indignè per quem non nascitur alter Did men love Christ they would endeavour to draw as many as they could to him He who loves his Captain will perswade others to come under his Banner this unmasks the hypocrite Though an hypocrite may make a show of Grace himself yet he never minds the procuring Grace in others he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without bowels I may allude to that Zac. 11. 9. That which dies let it die and that which is cut off let it be cut off Let souls go to the Devil he cares not 2. How far are they from being godly who instead of endeavouring Grace in others labour to destroy all hopeful beginnings of Grace in them Instead of drawing them to Christ they draw them from Christ their work is to poyson and mischief souls This mischieving of souls is three ways 1. By evil Edicts So Jeroboam made Israel sin 1 King 17. 26. He forced them to Idolatry 2. By evil Examples Examples speak louder than Precepts but principally the examples of great ones are influential Men placed on high are like the Pillar of Cloud when that went Israel went If great ones move irregularly others will follow after 3. By evil Company the breath of sinners is infectious they are like the Dragon which cast a floud out of his mouth Revel 12. 15. They cast a floud of oaths out of their mouth Wicked tongues are set on fire of Hell Iam. 3. 6. The sinner finds Match and Powder and the Devil finds fire The wicked are ever setting snares and temptations before others as the Prophet speaks in another sense Ier. 35. 5. I set pots full of wine and cups and said unto them drink So the wicked set pots of Wine before others and make them drink till Reason be stupified and Lust inflamed These are prodigiously wicked who make men Proselites to the Devil How sad will their doom be who besides their own sins have the bloud of others to answer for 3. If it be the sign of a godly man to promote Grace in others then much more ought he to promote it in his neer Relations A godly man will be careful that his Children should know God he would be sorry that any of his flesh should burn in hell he labours to see Christ formed in them who are himself in another Edition Austin saith That his Mother Monica travelled with greater care and pain for his Spiritual Birth than for his Natural The time of Childhood is the fittest time to be sowing seeds of Religion in our Children Isa. 28. 9. Whom shall he make understand Doctrine Them that are weaned from the milk that are drawn from the breasts The Wax while it is soft and tender will take any impression Children while they are young will fear a reproof when they are old they will hate it 1. It is pleasing to God that our Children should know him betimes When you come into a garden you love to pluck the young bud and smell to it God loves a Saint in the bud of all the Trees the Lord made choice of in a Prophetical Vision it was the Almond Tree which blossomes one of the first of the Trees Such an Almond Tree is an early Convert 2. By endeavouring to bring up our Children in the fear of the Lord we shall provide for Gods glory when we are dead A godly man should not only honor God while he lives but do something that may promote Gods glory when he is dead Our Children being seasoned with gracious Principles will stand up in our room when we are gone and will glorifie God in their generation A good piece of ground doth not only bear a fore-crop but an after-crop he that is godly doth not only bear God a crop of obedience himself while he lives but by principling his Childe with Religion he bears God an after-crop when he is dead Use 2. Let all who have Gods Name named upon them do what in them lies to advance Piety in others A Knife touched with a Loadstone will draw the Needle he whose heart is divinely touched with the Loadstone of Gods Spirit will endeavour to draw those who are neer him to Christ The Heathen could say We are not born for our selves only The more excellent any thing is the more communicative in the body every member is diffusive the eye conveys light the head spirits the liver bloud a Christian must not move altogether within his own circle but endeavour the welfare of others To be diffusively good makes us resemble God whose sacred influence is universal And surely it will be no grief of heart when Conscience can witness for us that we have brought glory to God in this manner by labouring to fill heaven Not that this is any ways Meritorious or hath any causal influence upon our Salvation Christs bloud is the cause but our promoting Gods glory in the Conversion of others is a signal evidence of our Salvation As the Rain-bow is not a cause why God will not drown the World but it is a sign that he will not drown it or as Rahabs Scarlet thread she hung out of the window was not a cause why she was exempted from destruction but it was a sign of her being exempted so our building up others in the Faith is not a cause why we are saved but it is a Symbole of our Piety and a presage of