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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.
A gracious spirit passeth by affronts, forgets injuries, and counts it a greater victory to conquer an enemy by patience, than by †power: This is truly heroical, To overcome evil with good. Though I would not trust an Enemy, yet I would endeavour to love him; though I would exclude him out of my Creed, yet not out of my prayer, Mat. 5. 4.
- †Haud quaquam offensas •• bi illatas chaly•eo stilo marmore insculpit, se• Dei [Greek or Hebrew] imitatur, qui injurias molli inscribit palimpsesto, cui gratiae suae spongia alligata est, ut illas statim deleat.Haud quaquam offensas •• bi illatas chaly•eo stilo marmore insculpit, se• Dei 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 imitatur, qui injurias molli inscribit palimpsesto, cui gratiae suae spongia alligata est, ut illas statim deleat.
Quest. But doth every godly man arrive at this, to forgive, yea love his Enemies?
Answ. He doth it in a Gospel-sense; that is, 1. Quoad assensum, he subscribes to it in his judgement, as a thing which ought to be done, Rom. 7. 18