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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.
'Tis true, there are the seeds of this sin, in the* best; but as it was with the Leprosy under the Law, all that had risings, or spots in the skin of the flesh, were not reputed unclean; and put out of the* Camp: so all that have the risings of hypocrisy in them, are not to be judged hypocrites, for these may be the spots of Gods *children. But that which denominates an hypocrite, is, when hypocrisy is predominant, and is like a spreading humour in the body.
- *Vivit adhuc [Greek or Hebrew] quamdiù aliquae fibrae manent, sed agrè, & admodum languidè.Vivit adhuc 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 quamdiù aliquae fibrae manent, sed agrè, & admodum languidè.
- *Levit. 13. 6.
- *Deut. 32 5.
Quest. When is a man under the regency and power of hypocrisy?
Answ. There are two signs of its predominancy. 1 A squint eye, when one serves God for sinister ends. 2 A right eye, when there is some sin dear to a man, which he cannot part with. These two are as shrewd signs of an hypocrite, as any I know.