A65296:154
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.
3. When we are Advocates in a bad Cause, pleading for any impious, unjustifiable actings; when we baptize sin with the Name of Religion, and with our Oratory ⟨p. 52⟩wash the Devils face; this is to be the servants of men; in these cases a godly person will not so unman himself, as to serve men; he saith as Paul, Gal. 1. 10. If I pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ: And as Peter, Act. 5. 23. We ought to obey God rather than men.
Use. 1How many leagues distant are they from godliness, who do [Greek or Hebrew], who either for fear of punishment, or hope of preferment, comply with the sinful commands of men, who will put their Conscience into any yoke, and sail with any wind that blows profit: These are the servants of men; they have abjured their Baptismal Vow, and renounced the Lord that bought them.
Use. 1How many leagues distant are they from godliness, who do 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, who either for fear of punishment, or hope of preferment, comply with the sinful commands of men, who will put their Conscience into any yoak, and sail with any wind that blows profit: These are the servants of men; they have abjured their Baptismal Vow, and renounced the Lord that bought them.
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