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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.
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* Wisdom) is the Crowning Knowledge: One leaf of this Tree of Life, will give us more comfort on a death-bed, than the whole Idea and plot-form of Humane Science: What is it to know all the motions of the Orbs; and influences of the Stars, and in the mean time to be ignorant of Christ, the bright Morning Star? Rev. 22. 16. What is it to understand the nature of Minerals, or precious stones, and not to know Christ the true Corner-stone? Isa. 28. 16. 'Tis an undervaluing, yea despising of Christ, when with the load-stone we draw iron, and straw ⟨p. 62⟩to us, but neglect him who hath tried gold to bestow upon us, Rev. 3. 18.
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 skill'd 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 cloath 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 preheminence: 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 wisdome, hath been miraculously preserved; as if God would teach us, that to know Christ (the true