A65296:563
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.
1 As they are ex eodem luto, of the same lump and mould with our selves, and are a piece of Gods curious* needle-work.
1 As they are ex eodem luto, of the same lump and mould with our selves, and are a peece of Gods curious* needle-work.
- *Resert laertius de Aristotele, quum ipsi probo daretur, quod flagitioso homini opem tulisset, eum respondisse, [Greek or Hebrew].Resert laertius de Aristotele, quum ipsi probo daretur, quod flagitioso homini opem tulisset, eum respondisse, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
2 Because our sweet deportment towards them, may be a means to win upon them, and make them in love with the ways of God; a morose rugged carriage, often alienates the hearts of others, and hardens them the more against holiness, whereas a loving behaviour is very obliging, and may be as a load-stone to draw them to religion.
2 Because our sweet deportment towards them, may bee a means to win upon them, and make them in love with the waies of God; a morose ruggid carriage, often alienates the hearts of others, and hardens them the more against holiness, whereas a loving behaviour is very obliging, and may bee as a load-stone to draw them to religion.
2 There is a pious and an holy love, and this a godly man doth bear chiefly to them, who are of the household of