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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.
1. The more worth any man hath, the more humble he is. Feathers fly up, but Gold descends.1 The golden Saint descends §1in humility. Some of the Ancients have compared Humility to the Celidonian stone, which is little for substance, but of rare virtue.
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2. God loves an humble soul. 'Tis not our high birth, but our low hearts God delights in. An humble spirit is Gods prospect. Isa. 66. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit; an humble heart is Gods Palace, Isa. 57. 15. I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of an humble spirit. Great Personages besides their houses of state, have lesser houses which upon occasion they retreat to. Besides Gods house of state in Heaven, he hath the humble soul for his retiring-house, where he takes up his rest, and doth solace himself. ⟨p. 114⟩Let Italy boast that it is for pleasure the Garden of the world; an humble heart glories in this, that it is the Presence-chamber of the Great King.