A65296:742
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.
3 That a little Religion will serve the turn;1 the life-less form may in policy be kept up, but zeal is Frenzy; the world thinks that religion to be best, which like leaf-gold, is spread very thin.
- 13 Opin.
4 That way is not good,1 which is exposed to affliction, a stick, though it be straight, yet under water it seems crooked: So Religion, if it be under affliction, appears to a carnal eye crooked.
- 14 Opin.
5 That all a mans care should be for the present;1 as that profane Cardinal said, he would leave his part in Paradise, to keep his Cardinalship in Paris.
5 That all a mans care should be for the present;1 as that prophane Cardinal said, he would leave his part in Paradise, to keep his Cardinalship in Paris.
- 15 Opin.