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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.
3 Love to the Saints must be extensive, we must love all that bear Gods* image.
- *A quatenus ad omne valet consequentia.
1 Though they have many infirmities; a Christian in this life, is like a good face full of Freckles; thou that canst not love another because of his imperfections, didst never yet see thy own face in the glass; thy brothers infirmities may make thee pity him, his graces must make thee love him.
2 We must love the Saints, though in some things they do not coalesce and agree with us: another Christian may differ from me in less matters, either because he hath more light than I, or because he hath less light; if he differs from me, because he hath more light, then I have no reason to censure him; if because he hath less light, than I ought to bear with him, as the weaker Vessel, ⟨p. 198⟩in things of an indifferent nature, there ought to be Christian connivance.
2 Wee must love the Saints, though in some things they do not coalesce and agree with us: another Christian may differ from me in less matters, either because hee hath more light than I, or because hee hath lesse light; if he differs from me, because he hath more light, then I have no reason to censure him; if because hee hath less light, than I ought to bear with him, as the weaker Vessel, ⟨p. 198⟩in things of an indifferent nature, there ought to be Christian connivance.