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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.
Such is the love a gracious Soul bears to ⟨p. 33⟩God, that many waters cannot quench it; he loves a frowning God. †Though I am out of sign, and clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
Such is the love a gracious Soulbears to ⟨p. 33⟩God, that many waters cannot quench it; he loves a frowning God. †Though I am out of sign, and clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
- †Herb. Poem.
A godly man loves God, though he be reduced to straits: A Mother and her Child of nine years old, being ready to perish with hunger, the Child looking upon its Mother said, Mother, do you think God will starve us? No Child, said the Mother, he will not: The Child replied, But if he do, we must love him, and serve him.
A godly man loves God, though he be reduced to straits: A Mother and her Childe of nine years old, being ready to perish with hunger, the Childe looking upon its Mother said, Mother, do you think God will starve us? No Childe, said the Mother, he will not: The Childe replied, But if he do, we must love him, and serve him.
Use. Let us try our godliness by this Touch-stone; Do we love God? Is he our Treasure and