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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.
And as godliness brings profit with it, so it is profitable [Greek or Hebrew] for all things, 1 Tim. 4. 8. What is so besides godliness? Food will not give a man wisdom, gold will not give him health, honour will not give him beauty; but godliness is useful for all things, it fenceth off all troubles, it supplies all wants, it makes soul and body completely happy.
And as godliness brings profit with it, so it is profitable 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 for all things, 1 Tim. 4. 8. What is so besides godliness? Food will not give a man wisdome, gold will not give him health, honor will not give him beauty; but godliness is useful for all things, it fenceth off all troubles, it supplies all wants, it makes soul and body compleatly happy.
5. Godliness is an enduring substance, it knows no fall of the leaf.
All worldly delights have a Deaths-Head set upon them; they are but shadows, and they are flying: Earthly comforts are like Pauls friends, who brought him to the Ship, and there left him, Acts 20. 38. So these will bring a man to his grave, and then take their farewell; but godliness is [Greek or Hebrew], a possession we cannot be robbed of, it runs parallel with Eternity; force cannot weaken it, age cannot wither it; it out-braves sufferings, it our-lives death,