A65296:445
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.
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.
3. It is a better Land for its inoffensiveness: There are no briars there; the World is a Wilderness where are wicked men, and the best of them is a briar, Mica 7. 4. They will be tearing the people of God in their spiritual Liberties; but in the Country above there is not one briar to be seen, all the briars are burned.
3. It is a better Land for its inoffensiveness: There are no bryars there; the World is a Wilderness where are wicked men, and the best of them is a bryar, Mica 7. 4. They will be tearing the people of God in their spiritual Liberties; but in the Country above there is not one bryar to be seen, all the bryars are burned.