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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. 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.
5. One sin lived in keeps out Christ from entering; one stone in the Pipe keeps out the water; one sin indulged obstructs the soul, and keeps the streams of Christs Blood from running into it.
5. One sin lived in keeps out Christ from entring; one stone in the Pipe keeps out the water; one sin indulg'd obstructs the soul, and keeps the streams of Christs Bloud from running into it.