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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. A godly man dares not allow himself in rash censuring: Some think this a small matter,1 they will not swear, but they will slander: this is very evil; thou woundest a man in that which is dearest to him: He who is godly turns all his censures upon himself, he judgeth himself for his own sins, but is very chary, and tender of the good name of another.
- 1Use of Exhort.
Use. As you would be numbered among the Genealogies of the Saints, do not indulge your selves in any* sin; consider the mischief that one sin lived in will do.
Use. As you would be numbred among the Genealogies of the Saints, do not indulge your selves in any* sin; consider the mischief that one sin lived in will do.
- *Quam absurdum est postula re à Deo omnium peccatorum veniam, & •olle repromittere omnium peccatorum fugam?
1. One sin gives Satan as much advantage against thee as more: The Fowler can hold the Bird by one wing: Satan held Judas fast by one sin.
1. One sin gives Satan as much advantage against thee as more: The Fowler can hold the Bird by one wing: Satan held Iudas fast by one sin.