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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.
CHAP. II.
Opening the Nature of Godliness. Every one that is godly.
IT will first be enquired, What Godliness is?1
- 11. Inquiry
I answer in general,1 Godliness is the sacred impression, and workmanship of God in a man, whereby of carnal he is made spiritual. When Godliness is wrought in a person, he doth not receive a new soul, but he hath another spirit, Numb. 14. 24. The faculties are not new, but the qualities; the Strings are the same, but the Tune is mended. Concerning Godliness, I shall lay down these seven Maxims or Positions.
- 1Answ.