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The Godly Mans Picture · Thomas Watson

The Godly Mans Picture, Table – Errata

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE.

A

AFflictions on the Saints various. 172

Afflictions may lye long. ibid.

Affliction compared to a Net. 173

Apostasie dangerous. 301

Arguments to patience in affliction. 174

Assurance to be endeavoured after 308

B

Benefits by Christ, precious. 56

Bruised reed, what. 318

When a soul is bruised enough. 326

Bruised Reed not barren. 328

C

Caution to the Godly. 315

Characters of a godly man. 15

Children to honour their Parents. 225

Christ of a merciful disposition. 322

Christ full of preciousness. 53

Christ prized by a Saint. 57

Comfort to the real Christian. 317

Company of the godly to be frequented. 299

Complexion-sin how known. 210

Contentment with our condition. 247

Covetousness to be avoided. 301

Counsel to the godly. 316

D

Danger in allowing one sin. 215

Decay of Charity to be bewailed. 200

Diligence in a mans calling. 242

Disobedient children punished. 226

Distinctions about humility. 103

Distractions in duties, whence they arise. 232

How they may be cured. 233

E

Earthly and godly, a contradiction. 146

Endeavours of a Christian to be quickned. 342

Examples of patience. 171

Examples speak louder than precepts. 267

Excellency of the Word written. 83

F

Faith excites all the graces. 28

Few know the mystery of Faith. 30

Faiths encouragement. 323

Falling from grace refuted. 334

Fathers to instruct and pray for children. 223

Forgiveness of sin. 2

How sad to want it. 4

How sweet to have it. ib.

G

Gainful sins make men loosers. 209

God the best Master. 46

Godliness what. 5

Seven maxims about godliness. 6

Godly man like God. 34

Godly man a lover of the Word. 77

Godly man exact about the worship of God. 39

Godly man instrumental for the good of others. 263

Godliness exhorted to. 273

Godly men prudent. 284

Godly men the Bulwark of a nation. 285

Helps to godliness. 295

Grace to be promoted in our relations. 268

One grace in truth, hath all linked with it. 272

H

Hardness of heart differenced from an hard heart 327

Haters of Saints put in Gods black Book. 206

Heart to be called toaccount. 240

Heart to be watched. 296

Heavenly mindedness the note of a Saint. 141

How many wayes a godly man is heavenly. 142

Heaven-aspiring motives. 147

How heaven is a better country. 150

Holiness Gods glory. 35

Holiness of Saints, wherein discovered. 36

Honouring of Parents, wherein it consists. 225

Humble Soul Characterized. 104

Humility exhorted to. 113

How to be attained. 115

Husbands must love their Wives. 221

Hypocrisie a vile sin. 138

Hypocrites, partial in matters of Religion. 239

I

Ignorance in Gospel-times inexcusable. 22

Indulging sin, what. 206

Ingratitude odious. 193

Injuries to be forgiven. 245

K

Divine Knowledge, how qualified. 16

To be sought after. 24

How obtained. 25

L

Life of a Saint a life of believing. 29

Love of God to his people. 283

Love to God. 31

Love to the Scriptures, how shown. 79

Love to the Word Preached. 84

Whether we are Lovers of the Word. 85

Love to the Saints, how qualified. 196

Motives to Love. 201

Love, how gotten and preserved. 205

Luke-warm temper abominable. 161

M

Magistrates must put on Iustice as a robe. 218

Masters to be good at home, as well as at Church. 224

Ministers must sweat in Gods Vineyard. 218

Ministers ought to be zealous. 219

Mischieving of Souls three waies. 267

Misery of a natural estate. 275

Moral Righteousness to be observed. 243

Mystical union sweet. 343

O

Obedience to God must be universal. 238

How a godly man obeys all Gods commands. 249

Object. Touching hardness of heart answered. 327

Object. Touching smoaking flax answered. 339

Offices of Christ, precious. 55

Opposites to patience. 166

P

Patience in waiting. 164

Patience in bearing. 165

Patience, what it is. ib.

Patience how attained. 177

Persecution for Christ. 248

Perseverance in the profession of godliness. 299

Means to perseverance. 301

Motives to perseverance. 309

Persons of the godly, precious. 280

Praise, a God-exalting work. 181

Prayer the badge of a godly man. 117

Prayer spiritual, what it is. 119

A perswasive to Prayer. 128

Pretenders to godliness. 8

Pride an horrid sin. 114

Persons who do not prize Christ. 60

Whether we are prizers of Christ. 62

A perswasive to all, to prize Christ. 67

Promises to persevering Christians. 310

Proud men unmasked. 110

R

Relative holiness. 218

Motives to be good in our relation. 228

Reproof to them who pray not at all. 126

Reproofs, when loved. 87

Religion to be entred upon, out of choice. 305

S

Secret sins. 207

Self-denial needful. 307

Servant of God described. 43

Service of God excellent. 47

Serving of men when sinful. 51

Servants how to carry themselves to their Masters. 226

Sincere Christian deciphered. 131

Sincerity the ingredient into all the graces. 134

Sincerity a jewel of incomparable worth. 135

Sins of a justified person odious. 73

Smoking flax, what it signifies. 328

Why smoking flax shall not be quenched. 331

Spirit of God known by its motions. 89

Spirits motions, how distinguished from the impulse of a natural conscience. 90

Spirit known by its vertues. 91

How the spirit of God comforts. 94

Spirit deriders far from Godly. 99

Spirits in-dwelling to be laboured after. 100

Such as have the spirit, how they are to carry themselves. 101

Spiritualness in duty what. 230

How we may grow more spiritual in the service of God. 236

Superstitions persons seldome converted. 41

Support in the death of godly relations. 168

Sympathy with Sion. 246

T

Thankfulness a work proper for a Saint. 179

Thankfulness in adversity as well as prosperity. 183

How wee may know whether wee are rightly thankful. 185

Motives to thankfulness. 189

How to get a thankful heart. 194

Thanksgiving a more noble part of Gods worship. 181

Time to be redeemed. 297

Tryal of our love to God. 33

V

Unbeleif a God-dishonouring sin. 323

Unworthiness ought not to discourage. 325

W

What it is to walk with God. 251

Walking after the flesh, what it imports. 253

How we may know whether we walk with God. 255

Walking with God excellent. 257

How we may come to walk with God. 262

Weeper for sin 70

Why weeping after conversion. 71

Weeping, how qualified. 75

Go often into the weeping hath. 76

Works of Mercy. 248

World an hindrance to godliness. 295

Worldly things contemptible. 148

Worship of God, better in purity than pomp. 39

Z

Zeal, the flame that ascends from an holy heart. 155

Zeal fictitious. 156

Zeal rightly tempered. 157

Zeal to be pursued after. 162

FINIS.

ERRATA.

Page 76. line 23. For sangui serat, read, sanguit erat. page 64. marg. for foreign, read foreign. page 131. line 20. for fronte positus, read fronte politus. page 278. marg. for foreign read foreign page 342. marg. for 2 Conclusion, read, 2 Consolation.

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