A65296:743
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.
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.
6 That Sinning is better than Suffering;1 'tis more discretion to keep the skin whole, than the Conscience pure: These are such Rules, as the Crooked Serpent hath found out, which whosoever walk by, shall not know Peace.
- 16 Opin.