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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.
2 If you would be godly,1 take heed of the world; 'tis hard for a clod of dust to become a star, 1 Joh. 2. 15. love not the world: many would be godly, but the honours and profits of the world divert them; where the world fills both head and heart, there is no room for Christ; he whose mind is rooted in the earth, is likely enough to deride godliness; when our Saviour was preaching against sin, the Pharisees, who were covetous, derided him, Luk. 16. 14. The world eats out the heart of godliness, as the lvy eats out ⟨p. 296⟩the heart of the Oak; the world kills with her silver darts.
2 If you would be godly,1 take heed of the world; 'tis hard for a clod of dust to become a star, 1 Ioh. 2. 15. love not the world: many would be godly, but the honours and profits of the world divert them; where the world fills both head and heart, there is no room for Christ; he whose minde is rooted in the earth, is likely enough to deride godliness; when our Saviour was preaching against sin, the Pharisees, who were covetous, derided him, Luk. 16. 14. The world eats out the heart of godliness, as the lvy eats out ⟨p. 296⟩the heart of the Oak; the world kills with her silver darts.
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