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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. 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, Pro. 10. •. Death may pluck the stalk of the body, but the Flower of grace is not hurt. ⟨p. 293⟩—numquam stygias fertur ad umbras inclyta virtus.1
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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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, Pro. 10. •. Death may pluck the stalk of the body, but the Flower of grace is not hurt. ⟨p. 293⟩