A65296:1053
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.
4. Adorn this Marriage-Relation,1 that you may be a crown to your husband. 1. Wear a veil. We read of the spouses veil, Cant. 5. 7. This veil is humility. 2. Put on your Jewels. These are the graces, which for their lustre are compared to rows of Pearl, and chains of gold, Cant. 1. 10. These precious Jewels distinguish Christs Bride from strangers. 3. Carry your selves as becomes Christs Spouse. 1. In chastity. 2. In sanctity.
4. Adorn this Marriage-Relation,1 that you may be a crown to your husband. 1. Wear a vail. We read of the spouses vail, Cant. 5. 7. This vail is humility. 2. Put on your Jewels. These are the graces, which for their lustre are compared to rows of Pearl, and chains of gold, Cant. 1. 10. These precious Jewels distinguish Christs Bride from strangers. 3. Carry your selves as becomes Christs Spouse. 1. In chastity. 2. In sanctity.
- 14 Duty.
1. In chastity: Be chaste in your judgments, defile not your selves with error, error adulterates the mind, 1 Tim. 6. 5. 'tis one of Satan's artifices, first to defile the judgement, then the conscience.
1. In chastity: Be chaste in your judgments, defile not your selves with error, error adulterates the mind,