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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.
Use 3. As we would evidence to the world that we have the impress of godliness on us,1 let us be prizers of Jesus Christ; he is Elect, Precious; Christ is the wonder of beauty: Pliny saith of the Mulberry Tree, there is nothing in it, but what is medicinable and useful, the fruit, leaves, bark: So there is nothing in Christ, but what is precious; his Name is precious, his Virtues precious, his bloud precious. —Et precium mundi sanguiser at Domini—
- 1Use 3. of Exhort.
Oh then let us have endearing thoughts of Christ; let him be accounted our chief treasure and delight: This is the reason why millions perish, because they do not prize ⟨p. 68⟩Christ: Christ is the door by which men are to enter into heaven, John 10. 9. If they do not know this door, or are so proud that they will not stoop to go in at i•, how can they be saved? That we may have Christ-admiring thoughts: Let us consider,
Oh then let us have endearing thoughts of Christ; let him be accounted our chief treasure and delight: This is the reason why millions perish, because they do not prize ⟨p. 68⟩Christ: Christ is the door by which men are to enter into heaven, Iohn 10. 9. If they do not know this door, or are so proud that they will not stoop to go in at i•, how can they be saved? That we may have Christ-admiring thoughts: Let us consider,