A65296:682
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.
Use 1 How far are they out of the way of Godliness,1 who are unspiritual in their worship? who do not duties from a renewed principle, and with the utmost intention of soul, but merely to stop the mouth of conscience: many people look no farther than ⟨p. 235⟩the bare doing of duties, but never mind how they are done. God doth not judge of our duties by the length, but by the love: when men put God off with the dreggish part of duty, may not he say as Isa. 58. 5. Is it such a Fast that I have chosen? Are these the duties I required? I called for the heart and spirit, and you bring nothing but the Carcass of Duty, should I receive comfort in this?
Use 1 How far are they out of the way of Godliness,1 who are unspiritual in their worship? who do not duties from a renewed principle, and with the utmost intention of soul, but meerly to stop the mouth of conscience: many people look no farther than ⟨p. 235⟩the bare doing of duties, but never mind how they are done. God doth not judge of our duties by the length, but by the love: when men put God off with the dreggish part of duty, may not he say as Isa. 58. 5. Is it such a Fast that I have chosen? Are these the duties I required? I called for the heart and spirit, and you bring nothing but the Carkass of Duty, should I receive comfort in this?
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