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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.
2. The Socinians, who acknowledge only Christs Humanity: this is to make him below the Angels; for the Humane Nature simply considered, is inferior to the Angelical, Psa. 8. 5.
2. The Socinians, who acknowledge only Christs Humanity: this is to make him below the Angels; for the Humane Nature simply considered, is inferiour to the Angelical, Psa. 8. 5.
3. Proud Professors; who do not lay the whole stress of their Salvation upon Christ, but would mingle their dross with his gold, their duties with his Merits; this is to steal a Jewel from Christs Crown, and implicitly to deny him to be a perfect Saviour.
4. Airy Speculatists; who prefer the study of the Arts and Sciences before Christ; not but that the knowledge of these is commendable: Moses was skilled in all the knowledge of the Egyptians, Acts 7. 22. Humane Learning is of good use to prepare for the study of better things; as a courser dye prepares the cloth for a richer and a deeper dye: but the fault is, when the study of Christ is neglected: The knowledge of Christ ought to have the preeminence: It was not sure without a Mystery, that God suffered all Solomons writings about birds and plants to be lost; but what he wrote about spiritual wisdom, hath been miraculously preserved; as if God would teach us, that to know Christ (the true*