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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 Are not they proud who are highly opinionated of their own excellencies? who beholding themselves in philautiae speculo, in the multiplying glass of self-love, appear in their own eyes better than they are: Simon Magus gave out, that himself was [Greek or Hebrew], some great one, Act. 8. 9. Alexander would needs be son to Jupiter, and of the Race of the gods. Sapor King of Persia stiles himself Brother of the Sun and Moon. ⟨p. 111⟩Projicit ampullas, & sesqui pedalia* verba.
2 Are not they proud who are highly opinionated of their own excellencies? who beholding themselves in philautiae speculo, in the multiplying glass of self-love, appear in their own eyes better than they are: Simon Magus gave out, that himself was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, some great one, Act. 8. 9. Alexander would needs be son to Iupiter, and of the Race of the gods. Sapor King of Persia stiles himself Brother of the Sun and Moon. ⟨p. 111⟩Projicit ampullas, & sesqui pedalia* verba.
- *Horat.
I have read of a Pope, who trod upon the neck of Frederick the Emperor, and as a Cloak for his pride, cited that Text, Psa. 91. 13. Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon, and the Dragon shalt thou trample under feet: No such Idol as Self; the proud man bows down to this Idol.