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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.
3, Godliness is a supernatural thing: by nature we inherit nothing but evil. Rom. 7. 5. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin did work in our members: we did suck in sin, as naturally as our Mothers milk; but godliness is the wisdom from above, Jam. 3. 17. it is breathed in from heaven. God must light up the Lamp of Grace in the heart: Weeds grow of themselves, flowers are planted. Godliness is a Celestial Plant, that comes from the New Jerusalem: Therefore it is called a fruit of the Spirit, Gal. 5. 22. A man ⟨p. 7⟩hath no more power to change himself than to create himself.
3, Godliness is a supernatural thing: by nature we inherit nothing but evil. Rom. 7. 5. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin did work in our members: we did suck in sin, as naturally as our Mothers milk; but godliness is the wisdom from above, Jam. 3. 17. it is breathed in from heaven. God must light up the Lamp of Grace in the heart: Weeds grow of themselves, flowers are planted. Godliness is a Coelestial Plant, that comes from the New Hierusalem: Therefore it is called a fruit of the Spirit, Gal. 5. 22. A man ⟨p. 7⟩hath no more power to change himself than to create himself.
4. Godliness is an extensive thing; it is §4