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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.
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* him: David, though a King, yet looked upon himself as a worm, Psal. 22. 6. I am a worm, and no man. Bradford a Martyr, yet subscribes himself a sinner, Job 10. 15. If I am righteous, I will not lift up my head: Like the Violet, a sweet flower, but hangs down the head.
Answ. 1. An humble soul is emptied of all swelling thoughts of himself: Bernard calls Humility a Self-annihilation, Iob 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* him: David, though a King, yet looked upon himself as a worm, Psal. 22. 6