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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.
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.
2 They walk after fleshly lusts, they do [Greek or Hebrew] turn Caterers for the* flesh, Rom. 13. 14. such an one was the Emperor Heliogabalus, he so indulged the flesh, that he never ⟨p. 255⟩sate but among sweet flowers, mixed with Amber and Musk; he attired himself with Purple, set with precious stones; he burned in his Lamps, instead of oil, a costly Balsam brought from Arabia, very odoriferous; he bathed himself in perfumed waters, he did [Greek or Hebrew], he put his body to no other use,