The Godly Man's Picture

Name: The Godly Man's Picture
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1666

[6], 363, [11] p. · 82k words · Wing W1124 · ESTC R38514

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THE Character of a Godly Man, drawn with a SCRIPTURE-PENCIL. › Chapter 4 › Section 6THE Character of a Godly Man, drawn with a SCRIPTURE-PENSIL. › Chapter 4 › Section 6

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:143p. 50§3

2. I pass to the second Branch of this Character:¹ A godly man is not the servant of men, 1 Cor. 7. 23. Be ye not the servants of men.

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Quest. But is there no service we owe to men?

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Answ. There is a three-fold serving of men.

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1. There is a Civil service we owe to men; as the inferior to the superior▪ The servant is a Living Tool, as Aristotle ⟨p. 51⟩^*saith,

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