A32052:1147
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.
What a vain thing is man, when the best of men are but vanity at best!
Verily every man in his best estate is altogether vanity.1
The wife of a man's bosom, is better than the portions of the purse.
House and riches are the inheritance ⟨p. 144⟩1of fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.