Thomas Watson — from the Text Creation Partnership’s transcription of the 1666 edition, keyed by hand from the page images.
The Godly Man’s Picture, Drawn with a Scripture Pencil asks who the godly man is and answers it in twenty-four characteristical signs, each given a section of its own here, before turning to use, exhortation and comfort. Two sermons printed with it — on the bruised reed and on my beloved is mine — close the book. Spelling and punctuation are as printed in 1666. A few words the transcribers could not read, and the Greek and Hebrew their transcription does not carry, are marked […].
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Contents (36)
- To the Reader
- The Text Opened
- What Godliness Is
- A Reproof to Alchemy Christians
- A Godly Man Is a Man of Knowledge
- A Godly Man Is Acted by Faith
- A Godly Man Is Fired with Love to God
- A Godly Man Is Like God
- A Godly Man Is Exact about the Worship of God
- A Godly Man Is a Servant of God
- A Godly Man Is a Christ-Prizer
- A Godly Man Is an Evangelical Weeper
- A Godly Man Is a Lover of the Word
- A Godly Man Has the Spirit of God Residing in Him
- A Godly Man Is an Humble Man
- A Godly Man Is a Praying Man
- A Godly Man Is a Sincere Man
- A Godly Man Is an Heavenly Man
- A Godly Man Is a Zealous Man
- A Godly Man Is a Patient Man
- A Godly Man Is a Thankful Man
- A Godly Man Is a Lover of the Saints
- A Godly Man Does Not Indulge Himself in Any Sin
- A Godly Man Is Good in His Relations
- A Godly Man Does Spiritual Things in a Spiritual Manner
- A Godly Man Is Thorough-Paced in Religion
- A Godly Man Walks with God
- A Godly Man Labours to Make Others Godly
- Two Conclusions Concerning the Characteristical Signs
- Three Uses Drawn from the Characteristics
- What We Must Do That We May Be Godly
- An Exhortation to Persevere in Godliness
- Four Considerations to Excite Perseverance
- Caution, Counsel and Comfort to the Truly Godly
- The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax
- My Beloved Is Mine, and I Am His