A65296:786
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.
Use 2. Let all who have Gods Name named upon them,1 do what in them lies to advance Piety in others: A Knife touched with a Lodestone will draw the Needle; he whose heart is divinely touched with the Lodestone of Gods Spirit, will endeavour to draw those who are near him to Christ: The Heathen could say, We are not born for our selves *only. The more excellent any thing is, the more communicative; in the body every member is diffusive, the eye conveys light, the head spirits, the liver blood; a Christian must not move altogether within his own circle, but endeavour the welfare of ⟨p. 270⟩†others: To be diffusively good, makes us resemble God, whose sacred influence is universal.
Use 2. Let all who have Gods Name named upon them,1 do what in them lies to advance Piety in others: A Knife touched with a Loadstone will draw the Needle; he whose heart is divinely touched with the Loadstone of Gods Spirit, will endeavour to draw those who are neer him to Christ: The Heathen could say, We are not born for our selves *only. The more excellent any thing is, the more communicative; in the body every member is diffusive, the eye conveys light, the head spirits, the liver bloud; a Christian must not move altogether within his own circle, but endeavour the welfare of ⟨p. 270⟩†others: To be diffusively good, makes us resemble God, whose sacred influence is universal.
- 1Use 2. Exhort.
- *Non nobis solum nati.
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