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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 sets his servants a good example, he is sober and heavenly in his deportment, his virtuous life is a fair glass for the servants in the family to dress themselves by.
6. He is godly who is good in the Relation of a Child, He honours his parents. Philo the Jew, placed the fifth Commandment in ⟨p. 225⟩the first Table; as if Children had not performed their whole devotion to God, till they had given honour to their Parents. This honouring of Parents consists in two things.
6. He is godly who is good in the Relation of a Childe, He honours his parents. Philo the Jew, placed the fifth Commandment in ⟨p. 225⟩the first Table; as if Children had not performed their whole devotion to God, till they had given honour to their Parents. This honouring of Parents consists in two things.
1. In reverencing their persons; which reverence is shown both by humility of speech and gesture: The contrary to this is, when a Child doth behave himself unseemly and proudly. Among the Lacedaemonians, if a Child had carried himself imperiously towards his parent, it was published by Authority, that it was lawful for the Father to appoint whom he would to be his Heir, and to dis-inherit that Child.
1. In reverencing their persons; which reverence is shown both by humility of speech and gesture: The contrary to this is, when a Childe doth behave himself unseemly and proudly. Among the Lacedemonians, if a Childe had carried himself imperiously towards his parent, it was published by Authority, that it was lawful for the Father to appoint whom he would to be his Heir, and to dis-inherit that Childe.