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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.
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 †Holiness: The godly are as well an Holy as a Royal Priesthood, 1 Pet. 2. 9. Nor have they only a Frontispiece of holiness, like the Egyptian Temples, which were fair without; but they are like Solomons Temple, which had gold within; they have written upon their heart Holiness to the Lord: The holiness of the Saints consists in their conformity to Gods Will, which is the rule and pattern of all Holiness.
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 intrinsick 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 *