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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
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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.
3. I distinguish between Humility and Policy; many make a show of Humility to work their own* ends: The Papists seem to be the most humble mortified Saints, but it is rather subtlety than humility; for by this means they get the Revenues of the earth into their possession; all this may be, and yet no godliness.
3. I distinguish between Humility and Policy; many make a shew of Humility to work their own* ends: The Papists seem to be the most humble mortified Saints, but it is rather subtilty than humility; for by this means they get the Revenues of the earth into their possession; all this may be, and yet no godliness.
- *Plurimi humilitatis umbram sectantur. Hierom.
Quest. How may a Christian know that he is humble, and consequently godly?
Answ. 1. An humble soul is emptied of all swelling thoughts of himself: Bernard calls Humility a Self-annihilation, Job 22. 29. Thou wilt save the humble. In the Hebrew it is, Him that is of low *eyes. An humble man ⟨p. 105⟩hath lower thoughts of himself than others can have of*