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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.
The second promise is Revel. 2. 7. To him that • vercometh will I give to eat of the tree of life. This Tree of life is the Lord Jesus. This tree infuseth ⟨p. 311⟩life, and prevents* death; in the day we eat of this tree, our eyes shall indeed be opened to see God.
- *Lignum vitae ea virtute est praeditum, ut animi vires roboret, nec senium obrepere unquam patiatur, Alchazar.
The third promise is Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna,1 and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it. This Promise consists of three branches.
- 1Vincere, est peccatum & mundum fide calcare & veritatem nunquam deserere. Muscul.
1 I will give to eat of the hidden Manna, This is mysterious, it signifies the love of God; which is Manna, for its sweetness, and hidden for its rarity.