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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.
SECT. XIII.
13. A godly man is a sincere man,1 John 1. 47. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whose spirit there is no guile. The word for sincere, [Greek or Hebrew] signifies sine plicis, without pleats and folds: A godly man is plain-hearted, having no subtle subterfuges; Religion is the Livery a godly man wears, and this Livery is lined with Sincerity.
13. A godly man is a sincere man,1 Iohn 1. 47. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whose spirit there is no guile. The word for sincere, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies sine plicis, without pleats and folds: A godly man is plain-hearted, having no subtil subterfuges; Religion is the Livery a godly man wears, and this Livery is lined with Sincerity.
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Quest. Wherein doth the godly mans Sincerity appear?