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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.
1 Love to the Saints must be sincere, 1 Joh. 3. 18. Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth: The honey that drops from the comb is pure, so must love be pure without deceit: Many are like Naphtali, Gen. 49. 21. he giveth goodly words: Pretended love is like a painted fire, which hath no heat in it. Some hide malice under a ⟨p. 197⟩false veil of love; I have read of Antoninus the Emperor, where he made a show of Friendship, there he intended the most mischief.
1 Love to the Saints must bee sincere, 1 Ioh. 3. 18. Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth: The hony that drops from the comb is pure, so must love be pure without deceit: Many are like Naphtali, Gen. 49. 21. he giveth goodly words: Pretended love is like a painted fire, which hath no heat in it. Some hide malice under a ⟨p. 197⟩false veil of love; I have read of Antoninus the Emperour, where he made a shew of Friendship, there he intended the most mischief.
2 Love to the Saints must be spiritual, we must love them because they are Saints; not out of self-respects, because they are affable, or have been kind to* us, [Greek or Hebrew]. Hesh. but we must love them under a spiritual notion, because of the good that is in them; we are to reverence their holiness, else it is a carnal love.
2 Love to the Saints must be spiritual, we must love them because they are Saints; not out of self-respects, because they are affable, or have been kinde to