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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. One sin lived in argues the heart is not sound; he who hides one Rebel in his house is a Traitor to the Crown; that person who indulgeth one sin, is a traitorous hypocrite.
2. One sin lived in argues the heart is not sound; he who hides one Rebel in his house is a Traytor to the Crown; that person who indulgeth one sin, is a trayterous hypocrite.
3. One sin will make way for more; as a little Thief can open the door to more: Sin is linked and chained† together; one sin will draw on more: Davids adultery made way for murder: One sin never goes alone; if there be but one Nest-egg, the Devil can brood upon it.
- †Omne peccatum est connexum. Aquin.
4. One sin is as well a breach of Gods Law as more, Jam. 2. 10. He that shall offend in one point, is guilty of all. If the King make a Law against Felony, Treason, Murder, if a man be guilty but of one of these, he is as well a Transgressor of the Law, as if he were guilty of all.
4. One sin is as well a breach of Gods Law as more, Iam. 2. 10. He that shall offend in one point, is guilty of all. If the King make a Law against Felony, Treason, Murder, if a man be guilty but of one of these, he is as well a Transgressor of the Law, as if he were guilty of all.