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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.
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.
1. Godliness is a Real thing, it is not §1[Greek or Hebrew], but [Greek or Hebrew]; Godliness is not the ⟨p. 6⟩feverish conceit of a sick brain; a Christian is no Enthusiast, one whose Religion is made up all of Fancy; Godliness hath Truth for its foundation; it is called the way of Truth, *Psal. 119. 30. godliness is a ray and beam that shines from God: if God be true, then godliness is true.