Saints memorials, or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver…

What Humiliation, what Lamentation doth our condition call for! Little reason to walk so haughtily as we do, and with the Pharisee to say, Stand farther off, I am holier than thou. For shame then, come with humble Job in his prostrate State, Abhor your selves, and repent in dust and ashes: or with the Prophet cry out, Woe is me, I am undone, a man of unclean lips; ⟨image 4⟩mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts: A dreadful sight undoubtedly, that should be so astonishing to one whom God honoured in making use of his blood for a Testimony of his truth: how much more must it needs be to us, whose lives are so unclean, that there is no soundness in us? What necessity is there then of finding out a way to look God in the face? there is but one; and Blessed, and for ever Blessed be his gracious Name, for the Revelation of it, and that is Jesus Christ, the only Mediator betwixt God and Man. What had become of us, had he not interposed betwixt the wrath of an incensed Majesty and sinful Creatures? Vengeance had been speedily Executed, and all that long-suffering and patience which is now exercised to us-ward had been prevented; we should not have had line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; his faithful Ministers instructing, exhorting, and dehorting, if hereby the torrent of his Ire had not been stopped.

What Humiliation, what Lamentation doth our condition call for! Little reason to walk so haughtily as we do, and with the Pharisee to say, Stand farther off, I am holier than thou. For shame then, come with humble Job in his prostrate State, Abhor your selves, and repent in dust and ashes: or with the Prophet cry out, Wo is me, I am undone, a man of unclean lips; ⟨image 4⟩mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts: A dreadful sight undoubtedly, that should be so astonishing to one whom God honoured in making use of his blood for a Testimony of his truth: how much more must it needs be to us, whose lives are so unclean, that there is no soundness in us? What necessity is there then of finding out a way to look God in the face? there is but one; and Blessed, and for ever Blessed be his gratious Name, for the Revelation of it, and that is Jesus Christ, the onely Mediator betwixt God and Man. What had become of us, had he not interposed betwixt the wrath of an incensed Majesty and sinful Creatures? Vengeance had been speedily Executed, and all that long-suffering and patience which is now exercised to us-ward had been prevented; we should not have had line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; his faithful Ministers instructing, exhorting, and dehorting, if hereby the torrent of his Ire had not been stopt.