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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.
Sincerity (as I conceive) is not properly • grace, but rather the ingredient into every grace: Sincerity is that which doth qualify grace, and without which grace is not true, ⟨p. 135⟩Eph. 6. ult. Grace be with them, which love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity: Sincerity qualifies our love; sincerity is to grace, as the blood and spirits are to the body; there can be no life without the blood, so no grace without sincerity.
Sincerity (as I conceive) is not properly • grace, but rather the ingredient into every grace: Sincerity is that which doth qualifie grace, and without which grace is not true, ⟨p. 135⟩Eph. 6. ult. Grace be with them, which love our Lord Iesus Christ in sincerity: Sincerity qualifies our love; sincerity is to grace, as the bloud and spirits are to the body; there can be no life without the bloud, so no grace without sincerity.
Use. As we would be reputed godly,1 let us labour for this Character of sincerity.
- 1Use of Exhort.
1. Sincerity renders us lovely in Gods eyes;