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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. The knowledge of a godly man is §3quickening, Psalm 119. 93. I will never forget thy Precepts, for with them thou hast quickened me. Knowledge in a natural mans head, is like a Torch in a dead mans hand: True knowledge animates. A godly man is like John Baptist, a burning and a shining Lamp: He doth not only shine by illumination, but burn by affection.* The Spouses knowledge made her sick of love, Cant. 2. 5. Per•ulsa sum,† I am wounded with love. I am like a Deer that is struck with a Dart, my Soul lies a bleeding, and nothing can cure me, but a sight of him whom my Soul loves.
3. The knowledge of a godly man is §3quickning, Psalm 119. 93. I will never forget thy Precepts, for with them thou hast quickned me. Knowledge in a natural mans head, is like a Torch in a dead mans hand: True knowledge animates. A godly man is like Iohn Baptist, a burning and a shining Lamp: He doth not only shine by illumination, but burn by affection.* The Spouses knowledge made her sick of love, Cant. 2. 5. Per•ulsa sum,† I am wounded with love. I am like a Deer that is struck with a Dart, my Soul lies a bleeding, and nothing can cure me, but a sight of him whom my Soul loves.
- *Claritas in intellectu, parit ardorem in affectu.