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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.
But the union between Christ and a Saint, is,
1 Federal;* my beloved is mine; God the Father gives the bride, God the Son receives the bride, God the Holy ghost ties the knot in marriage; he knits our wills to Christ, and Christs love to us.
1 Faederal;* my beloved is mine; God the Father gives the bride, God the Son receives the bride, God the Holy ghost tyes the knot in marriage; he knits our wills to Christ, and Christs love to us.
- *Religio nostra non mis•et naturas sed personas conf•derat
2 This union is virtual; Christ unites himself to his spouse, by his graces and influences, John 1. 16. Of his fullness have we all received, and grace for grace: Christ makes himself one with the spouse, by conveying his Image, and stamping the impress of his own holiness upon her.
2 This union is vertual; Christ unites himself to his spouse, by his graces and influences, Iohn 1. 16. Of his fulness have we all received, and grace for grace: Christ makes himself one with the spouse, by conveying his Image, and stamping the impress of his own holiness upon her.