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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.
Use 2. Let us show our selves godly,1 by being more spiritual in duty;2 'tis not the quantum, but the quale; 'tis not how much we do, but how well. A Musician is commended not for playing long, but for playing well: We must not only do what God appoints, but as God appoints: O how many are unspiritual in spiritual things? they bring their services, but not their hearts; they give God the skin, not the fat of the offering: God is a Spirit, Joh. 4. 24. And it is the spirituality of duty he is best pleased* with, 1 Pet. 2. 5. Spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God: The spirits of the Wine are best; so is the spiritual part of duty, Eph. 5. 19. Making melody in your hearts to the Lord: It is the heart makes the† Music; the spiritualizing of duty gives life to it; without this, it is dead praying, dead hearing, and dead ⟨p. 236⟩things are not pleasing; a dead flower hath no beauty, a dead breast hath no sweetness.
Use 2. Let us show our selves godly,1 by being more spiritual in duty;2 'tis not the quantum, but the quale; 'tis not how much we do, but how well. A Musitian is commended not for playing long, but for playing well: We must not only do what God appoints, but as God appoints: O how many are unspiritual in spiritual things? they bring their services, but not their hearts; they give God the skin, not the fat of the offering: God is a Spirit,