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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.
This is the best knowledge,1 it doth as far §1surpass all other, as the Diamond doth the Crystal; no Jewel we wear doth so adorn us as this, Pro. 3. 15. She is more precious than Rubies. Job 28. 12, 13. Man knows not the price thereof, the depth saith it is not in me, it cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious Onyx, or the Sapphire. The dark Chaos was a fit Emblem of an ignorant ⟨p. 25⟩Soul, Gen. 1. 2. but when God lights up the Lamp of Knowledge in the mind, what a new Creation is there? How doth the Soul sparkle as the Sun in its glory?
This is the best knowledge,1 it doth as far §1surpass all other, as the Diamond doth the Christal; no Jewel we wear doth so adorn us as this, Pro. 3. 15. She is more precious than Rubies. Iob 28. 12, 13. Man knows not the price thereof, the depth saith it is not in me, it cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious Onyx, or the Saphire. The dark Chaos was a fit Embleme of an ignorant ⟨p. 25⟩Soul, Gen. 1. 2. but when God lights up the Lamp of Knowledge in the mind, what a new Creation is there? How doth the Soul sparkle as the Sun in its glory?
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