A32052:1396
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.
God loves us not for what we have, but for what we are; and we are bound to love God, were it for no other reason but because he loveth us.
The wicked man mindeth not the God that made him, but sets his affections upon the God of his own making.
It is more honourable to purchase fame from a low degree, than to become contemptible and infamous though sprang from an honourable Family.