A Plea for the Godly

A stirring Puritan treatise on Proverbs 12:26, defending the dignity and excellency of the godly against the scorn of a hostile world. Watson demonstrates how the righteous surpass others in wisdom, spiritual life, usefulness, and even death — enriched by Christ's imputed righteousness and transformed by the Holy Spirit. With vivid imagery and pastoral warmth, he comforts afflicted believers, exposes the emptiness of mere morality, and calls readers to prize true holiness above worldly greatness. A powerful reminder that Job on the dunghill was more excellent than Pharaoh on the throne.