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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.
CHAP. III.
A Reproof to such as are but Pretenders to Godliness.1
- 1Use of Reproof.
Use. Here is a sharp Reprehension to such as are Alchemy Christians, who do only make a show of* godliness: like Michal ⟨p. 9⟩who put an Image in the bed, and so deceived Sauls Messengers, 1 Sam. 19. 16. these our Saviour calls whited *Sepulchres. They do not Virtutem collar, but colorare. In ancient times a third part of the Inhabitants of this Island were called Picts, which signifies painted; 'tis to be feared they still retain their old name: How many are painted only with the Vermilion of a Profession, whose seeming lustre dazzles the eyes of beholders, but within there is nothing but putrefaction†. Hypocrites are like the Swan, which hath white feathers, but a black skin; or like the Lilly, which hath a fair colour, but a bad sent. Rev. 1. 3. Thou hast a name to live, but thou art *dead. These the Apostle Jude compares to clouds without water, vers. 12. they pretend to be full of the Spirit, but they are empty clouds; their goodness is but a Religious Cheat.