A65296:733
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.
1. Some will commend walking with God, and say it is the rarest life in the world, but will not set one foot in the way; all that commend Wine do not come up to the price; many a Father commends virtue to his Child, but doth not set him a pattern.
1. Some will commend walking with God, and say it is the rarest life in the world, but will not set one foot in the way; all that commend Wine do not come up to the price; many a Father commends virtue to his Childe, but doth not set him a pattern.
2. Others walk a few steps in the good old †way, but they retreat back again: If the ways of God were not good, why did they enter into them? If they were good, why ⟨p. 253⟩did they forsake them? 2 Pet. 2. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment.
3. Others slander walking with God, that it is a melancholy walk, and such as are less zealous, are more prosperous; this God accounts blasphemy, 2 Pet. 2. 2. The way of truth shall be evil spoken of: In the Greek it is [Greek or Hebrew], it shall be blasphemed.