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The Godly Man's Picture
The godly mans picture drawn with a scripture-pencil, or, Some characteristical notes of a man that shall go to heaven by Thomas Watson ...The godly mans picture drawn with a scripture-pensil, or, Some characteristical notes of a man that shall go to heaven by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1666
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. IV.
4. A godly man is like God,1 he hath the same judgement with God; he thinks of things as God doth; he hath a God-like disposition; he partakes of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. A godly man doth bear Gods Name and Image; godliness is God-likeness. ⟨p. 35⟩'Tis one thing to profess God, another thing to resemble him.
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A godly man is like God in† Holiness: Holiness is the most orient Pearl of the King of Heavens Crown, Exod. 15. 11. Glorious in Holiness. Gods power makes him Mighty, his mercy makes him lovely, but his holiness makes him glorious: The Holiness of God is the intrinsic purity of his Nature, and his abhorrency of sin: A godly man bears some kind of Analogy with God in this: He hath the Holy Oil of Consecration upon him, Psal. 106. 16. Aaron the Saint of the *Lord. Holiness is the Badge and Livery of Christs people, Isa. 63. 18. The people of thy