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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.
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 †faith; the other was a love of courtesy, this of complacency: Our love to the Saints (saith Austin) should be more than to our natural relations, because the bond of the spirit is nearer than* that of blood. This love to the Saints, which evidenceth a man godly, must have seven ingredients in it.
2 There is a pious and an holy love, and this a godly man doth bear chiefly to them, who are of the houshold of †faith; the other was a love of courtesie, this of complacency: Our love to the Saints (saith Austin) should bee more than to our natural relations, because the bond of the spirit is nearer than* that of blood. This love to the Saints, which evidenceth a man godly, must have seven ingredients in it.
- †Quemadmodum ignis ea intensius caleficit quae adsita quam quae dissita sunt: •ta charitatis ignis ferventius fidei domesticos diliget, quam […] qui sunt a fide extranei.Quemadmodum ignis ea intensius caleficit quae adsita quam quae dissita sunt: •ta charitatis ignis ferventius fidei domesticos diliget, quam 〈…〉 qui sunt a fide extranei.
- *Quia major est fraternitas spiritus quam sanguinis. Aug. Tom. 0.
1 Love to the Saints must be sincere,