The Godly Man's Picture
- ISBN-10
- 1499331851
- ISBN-13
- 9781499331851
- Series
- The Godly Man's Picture
- Pages
- 152
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-05-05
- Author
- Thomas Watson
Description
Thomas Watson (1620-1686) was Thomas Watson is one of the most famous Puritan preachers in history, and his writings during the 17th century are still read across the world today. He was an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was noted for remarkably intense study.The Godly Man's Picture is a work of systematic theology. The full title is The Godly Man's Picture Drawn with a Scripture Pencil, or, Some Characteristic Marks of a Man who is Going to Heaven. The book is a work of English Puritan spirituality.The book's purpose, according to Watson, is to describe a godly person "in his full lineaments... that all into whose hands this book may providentially come, may be so enamoured with piety as to embrace it heartily."
