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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.
Exhorting such as have made a Profession of Godliness, to persevere.
Use 2. MY next Use is to exhort those who wear the Mantle,1 and in the judgement of others are looked upon as godly, that they would† persevere, Heb. 10. 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our Faith. This is a seasonable Exhortation in these times, when the Devils Factors are abroad, whose whole work is to unsettle people, and make them fall off from that former strictness in Religion which they have professed: 'Tis much to be lamented to see Christians
- 1Use 2.Vse 2.
- †Non cepisse sed perfecisse virtutis est
1. Wavering in Religion: How many do ⟨p. 300⟩we see desultorii ingenii, unresolved and unsteady: Like Reuben, unstable as water, Gen. 49. 4. These the Apostle fitly compares to waves of the Sea, and wandering Stars, Jude 13. They are not fixed in the principles of godliness. Beza writes of one Bolsechus, his Religion changed like the