A32052:1121
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.
1God is love, and we ought to serve him in fear and love. No service can be better done, than that which is done in love: God dwelleth in that servant, and that servant in him.
Why doth a wicked man envy the welfare of a man more righteous than himself? because it is a terror to his Conscience to see the Image of Virtue in another man, he having defaced it in himself.
Why doth a wicked man envy the welfare of a man more righteous than himself? because it is a terrour to his Conscience to see the Image of Vertue in another man, he having defaced it in himself.