A32052:111
Saints memorials, or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver…
Saints memorials, or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver being a collection of divine sentences / written and delivered by those late reverend and eminent ministers of the gospel, Mr. Edmund Calamy, Mr. Joseph Caryl, Mr. Ralph Venning, Mr. James Janeway.
London : s.n., 1674
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.
If troubles or afflictions shall befall thee, say as a late Reverend Divine said, I will go, and bless God; for I believe this will be for my good.
There are two Gospel-Graces which require your special heed, (viz.) Faith, and Repentance: for though many go to Hell by despair, more go thither by presumption.
It was the saying of the Learned Sir Thomas Moore, I will never pin my Faith upon the sleeve of another man, for he may carry it where I would be unwilling to follow.
You must serve God for his sake, as well as Heaven's.
A faithful servant of God may have an eye to the recompense of reward, as Moses had; but he must have but one eye, and that the left: for our chief and last aim must be at the Glory of God.