A32052:1465
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.
Sin is against the good of man's body; it hath corrupted his blood, ⟨p. 184⟩and made his body mortal, and thereby rendered it a vile body.
Our bodies, though made of dust, were yet more precious than fine Gold; but when we sinned, they became vile bodies.
Our bodies, though made of dust, were yet more pretious than fine Gold; but when we sinned, they became vile bodies.
Before sin, our bodies were immortal. (For death and mortality came in by sin.)
But now alas they must return to dust, and it's appointed to all men once to dye; (and 'tis well but once, and the second death have no power over them:) they must see corruption or a change.