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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.
2. Godliness is an intrinsical thing: it lies chiefly in the heart. Rom. 2. 29. Circumcision is that of the heart. The dew lies on the leaf, the sap is hid in the root. The Moralists Religion is all in the leaf, it consists only in Externals *but godliness is an holy sap which is radicated in the soul.* Psal. 51. 6. in the hidden part, thou shalt make me to know wisdom. The Chaldee expounds it, In the close place of the heart.
2. Godliness is an intrinsecal thing: it lies chiefly in the heart. Rom. 2. 29. Circumcision is that of the heart. The dew lies on the leaf, the sap is hid in the root. The Moralists Religion is all in the leaf, it consists only in Externals *but godliness is an holy sap which is radicated in the soul.* Psal. 51. 6. in the hidden part, thou shalt make me to know wisdom. The Chalde expounds it, In the close place of the heart.
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