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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.
1. The word written is our pillar of fire to guide* us: It shows us what Rocks we are to avoid; it is the card by which we sail to the new Jerusalem.
1. The word written is our pillar of fire to guide* us: It shows us what Rocks we are to avoid; it is the card by which we sail to the new Hierusalem.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Clem. A• lexandrin.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Clem. A• lexandrin.
2. The word is a Spiritual Optic Glass, through which we may see our own hearts: The Glass of Nature which the Heathen had, discovered spots in their Conversation, but this Glass discovers spots in the Imagination; that Glass discovered the spots of their unrighteousness, this discovers the spots of our righteousness, Rom. 7. 9. When the Commandment came, sin revived, and I died: when the word came as a Glass, all my opinion of self-righteousness died.
2. The word is a Spiritual Optick Glass, through which we may see our own hearts: The Glass of Nature which the Heathen had, discovered spots in their Conversation, but this Glass discovers spots in the Imagination; that Glass discovered the spots of their unrighteousness, this discovers the spots of our righteousness, Rom. 7. 9. When the Commandment came, sin revived, and I died: when the word came as a Glass, all my opinion of self-righteousness died.