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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.
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.
3. Others slander walking with God, that it is a melancholly 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it shall be blasphemed.
4. Others deride walking with God, as if it were a way of foolish preciseness: What, you will be of the Holy Tribe? You will be wiser than