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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.
Quest. Wherein doth the godly mans Sincerity appear?
Answ. 1. The godly man is that which he seems to be; he is a Jew inwardly, Rom. 2. 29. Grace runs through his heart, as silver through the veins of the earth: The hypocrite is not what he seems. —Fronte positus, Astutam vapido servans sub pectore vulpem.
Answ. 1. The godly man is that which he seems to be; he is a Iew inwardly, Rom. 2. 29. Grace runs through his heart, as silver through the veins of the earth: The hypocrite is not what he seems. —Fronte positus, Astutam vapido servans sub pectore vulpem.
A picture is like a man, but it wants breath: The Hypocrite is an Effigies, a picture, he doth not breathe forth Sanctity; he is but ⟨p. 132⟩like an Angel on a Sign-post: A godly man answers to his profession, as the Transcript to the Original.