A32052:1459
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.
Man's suffering follows at the heels of sin; yea, as he suffers by, so in sinning: suffering and sinning involve each other.
No sooner did sin enter into the world, but Death (which is a privation of good) did enter by it, with it, and in it.
For 'tis the sting of Death: so that sin saith, Here is Death; and death faith, Here is Sin.
No sooner did Angels sin, but they fell from their first State and Habitation which they had with God in Glory; not a moment between their sin and misery.
And as soon as man had sinned, his Conscience told him that he was naked, and destitute of Righteousness and Protection.