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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.
Use 2 Let us put our selves upon a scrutiny, and examine by this Character whether we are godly,1 are we thankful for mercy? ⟨p. 185⟩'tis an hard thing to be thankful.
Use 2 Let us put our selves upon a scrutiny, and examine by this Character whether we are godly,1 are wee thankful for mercy? ⟨p. 185⟩'tis an hard thing to bee thankful.
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Quest. How may we know whether we are rightly thankful?
Quest. How may wee know whether wee are rightly thankful?
Answ. 1 When we are careful to register Gods mercy, 1 Chron. 16. 4. David appointed certain of the Levites, to record and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel. Physicians say, the memory is the first thing that† decays; 'tis true in spirituals,