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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.
6. In that Country there is a better soil; the Land or Soil is better
1. For its altitude; the earth lying low, is of a baser pedigree; the Element, which is nearest heaven, is purer and more excellent, as the fire; that Country above is the High Country, Psal. 24. 3. it is seated far above all the visible Orbs.
1. For its altitude; the earth lying low, is of a baser pedigree; the Element, which is neerest heaven, is purer and more excellent, as the fire; that Country above is the High Country, Psal. 24. 3. it is seated far above all the visible Orbs.
2. It is a better Land for its fertileness, it bear a richer Crop: The richest Harvest on earth is the golden Harvest, but the Country ⟨p. 153⟩above yields Nobler Commodities, there are Pearls Celestial, there is the Spiritual Vine, there is the honey-comb of Gods love dropping, there is the Water of Life, the hidden Manna; there is fruit that doth not rot, flowers that never fade; there is a Crop which cannot be quite reaped, it will be ever reaping time in heaven, and all this the Land yields, without the labour of ploughing and sowing.
2. It is a better Land for its fertilness, it bear a richer Crop: The richest Harvest on earth is the golden Harvest, but the Country ⟨p. 153⟩above yields Nobier Commodities, there are Pearls Caelestial, there is the Spiritual Vine, there is the honey-comb of Gods love dropping, there is the Water of Life, the hidden Manna; there is fruit that doth not rot, flowers that never fade; there is a Crop which cannot be quite reaped, it will be ever reaping time in heaven, and all this the Land yields, without the labour of ploughing and sowing.