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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
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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.
Use 2.1 Is it the sign of a godly person to be a Christ-prizer? then let us try our godliness by this: Do we set an high estimation upon Christ?
- 1Use 2. of Trial.Vse 2. of Tryal.
Quest. How shall we know that?
Answ. 1. If we are prizers of Christ, then we prefer him in our judgements before other things: We value Christ above honour and riches; the Pearl of Price lies nearest our heart: He who prizeth Christ, esteems the gleanings of Christ better than the worlds Vintage: He counts the worst things of Christ better than the best things of the world, Heb. 11. 26. Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches, than the treasures in Egypt. And is it thus with us? Is the price of worldly things fallen? Gregory Nazianzene did solemnly bless God, that he had any thing to lose for Christs* sake But alas, how few Nazianzenes are to be found: You shall hear some say, they have honourable thoughts of Christ, but they prize their Land and Estate above him. The young man in the Gospel preferred his bags of gold before Christ: Judas valued thirty pieces of silver above him: May it not be feared, if an hour of trial come, there are many would ⟨p. 63⟩