#puritan paperback

[lrgabriel]

A Godly Person is a Thankful Person: The Godly Man's Picture

A Godly Man is a Thankful Man: Resharing my review of Thomas Watson's Puritan classic, The Godly Man's Picture

The Godly Man’s Picture Drawn with a Scripture Pencil by Thomas Watson “Praise and thanksgiving is the work of heaven and he begins that work here which he will always be doing in heaven…None but the godly can praise God aright.”   A painting of Watson by Gustavus Ellinthorpe Sintzenich The Puritan preacher/writer Thomas Watson (1620-1686) is considered one of our church’s honorary elders (in…

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[katherinezhang]

And do we creep like snails in religion? Shall impure sinners do the devil more service than we do Christ? Shall they make more haste to a prison, than we do to a kingdom? Are they never weary of sinning and are we weary of praying? Have we not a better Master than they? Are not the paths of virtue pleasant? Is not there joy in the way of duty, and heaven at the end? ... Let us not think lightly of sin.

Thomas Watson, All Things For Good