A65296:316
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. I distinguish between being humbled and humble; a man may be humbled, and not* humble;2 a sinner may be humbled by affliction, his condition is low, but not his disposition; a godly man is not only humbled, but humble, his heart is as low as his condition.
- *Quanti humiliantur & humiles non sunt. Bern.
- 22 Distinction.
2. I distinguish between outward humility and inward; there's a great deal of difference between an humble carriage, and an humble †spirit; a person may carry it humbly:
- †Plurimi humilitatem vultu menti entes superbia autem intus adeò tument, ut nulla vesica adeò sic inflata ventoquam cor eorum fastu.
1. Towards others, yet be proud; who more humble than Absalom in his outward ⟨p. 104⟩behaviour? 2 Sam. 15. 5. When any man came near to do him obeisance, Absalom took him by the hand and kissed him. But though he had an humble carriage, he aspired after the Crown, ver. 10. As soon as ye hear the sound of the Trumpet, ye shall say Absalom reigneth in Hebron. Here was Pride dressed in Humility's Mantle.