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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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4. Are not they proud who are the Trumpets of their own* praise? Acts 5. 36. Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be some body. A proud man is the Herald of his own good deeds, he blazeth his own fame, and therein is his vice, to paint his own virtue.
- *Proprio laus sordet in ore.
5. Are not they proud who take the glory due to God, to themselves, Dan. 4. 30. Is not this great Babylon I have built? So saith the proud man, are not these the Prayers I have made? Are not these the works of Charity I have done? When Herod had made an Oration, and the people cried him up for a God, Act. 12. 22. he was well content to have that honour done to him: Pride is the greatest sacrilege, it robs God of his glory.
5. Are not they proud who take the glory due to God, to themselves, Dan. 4. 30. Is not this great Babylon I have built? So saith the proud man, are not these the Prayers I have made? Are not these the works of Charity I have done? When Herod had made an Oration, and the people cryed him up for a God, Act. 12. 22. he was well content to have that honor done to him: Pride is the greatest sacriledge, it robs God of his glory.