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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.
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.
2 I will give him a white stone; 1that is absolution, it may be called a precious stone saith Hierom.
- 1Alb• lap•••• not ar• dicitur qui probatur.
3 And in the stone a new name; That is, Adoption, he shall be reputed an Heir of Heaven, and no man can know it, saving he who hath the privy seal of the spirit to assure him of it.
The fourth promise is, Rev. 3. 5. he that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his Angels. The persevering Saint shall be clothed in White; This is an Emblem of joy,