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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.
4. It is a better Land for the rareness of the prospect; all that a man sees there is his own: I account that the best prospect, where a man can see furthest on his own ground.
7. In that Country is better union; all the Inhabitants are knit together in love: The poysonful weed of malice doth not grow there; there is harmony without division, and charity without envy: In that Country above, as in Solomons Temple, no noise of Hammer is heard.
7. In that Country is better union; all the Inhabitants are knit together in love: The poysonful weed of malice doth not grow there; there is harmony without division, and charity without envy: In that Country above, as in Solomons Temple, no noyse of Hammer is heard.
8. In that Country is better employment; while we are here we are complaining of our wants, weeping over our sins, but there we shall be praising God: How will the Birds of Paradise chirp when they are in that Celestial Country? There the Morning Stars will sing together, and all the Saints of God shout for joy.
8. In that Country is better imployment; while we are here we are complaining of our wants, weeping over our sins, but there we shall be praising God: How will the Birds of Paradise chirp when they are in that Caelestial Country? There the Morning Stars will sing together, and all the Saints of God shout for joy.