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A plea for the Godly
A plea for the Godly wherein is shown the excellency of a righteous person / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by A. Maxwell for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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. The Subject, the Righteous. 2. The Predicate, he is more excellent than his neighbour.
Solomon seems, as it were, to put the righteous and the wicked in a pair of Scales; the one weighs as massy Gold, the other weighs lighter than the dust of the Balance.
Solomon seems, as it were, to put the righteous and the wicked in a pair of Scales; the one weighs as massy Gold, the other weighs lighter than the dust of the Ballance.
Doctrine. He who is truly righteous is far more excellent than any 1wicked person in the world whatsoever. I say [truly righteous] to exclude the Hypocrite, who hath [Greek or Hebrew] a Form, *and slight tincture of *piety, but knows not the grace of God in truth, Col. 1. 6. He hath nothing of religion but the name, Rev. 3. 1. and religion often suffers by him: But he ⟨p. 6⟩who is really righteous, is the excellent person, and hath a superiority to all others, I Sam. 15. 28.
Doctrine. He who is truly righteous is far more excellent than any