A32052:1436
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.
David in fulfilling of God's Will, was said to be a man after God's own heart; and they that obey the will of sin, are said to wall• after the heart of sin.
Sin is contrary to God's Image wherein man was made; sin is as unlike God's Image, as Darkness is to Light, as Hell to heaven, yea, and more too; sin is the Devil's Image.
Such as the Devil and his Angels are, who once knew good, but now know evil, both by doing it, and suffering the sad effects of it.
Thus he that runs may read the Picture, Image and likeness of the Devil in sin: sinners are as like the Devil as any thing.
Sin is contrary to the Children of God: they are near and dear to God; God's heart is set upon them for good, and sin sets its heart against them for evil.