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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.
Use 1 If Christ be the head of the body Mystical,1 Ephes. 1. 22. then this Doctrine doth behead the Pope, that man of sin, who usurps this prerogative, to be Ecclesiae caput, the head of the Church, and so would defile Christs marriage-bed; what blasphemy is this? two heads is monstrous; Christ is head, as he is husband, there is no vice-husband, no deputy in his room: The Pope is the Beast in the Revelation, 2to make him head of the Church, what were this, but to set the head of a Beast, upon the body of a Man?
- 1Use 1.Vse 1.
- 2Ca. 13. 11
Use 2 Is there such a conjugal union,1 let us try whether we are united to Christ.
- 1Use 2. Trial.Vse 2. Tryal.
1 Have we chosen Christ to set our love upon? and is this choice founded upon knowledge?