A32052:1478
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 that good which God left us, and fills it with vanity and vexation, with bitterness and a curse.
God left Adam many Acres of land to till and husband, but he hath it with a curse; sweat and sorrow, many a grieving Brier and pricking Thorn stick fast to him.
God left Adam many Acres of land to till and husband, but he hath it with a curse; sweat and sorrow, many a grieving Bryer and pricking Thorn stick fast to him.
God left him ground enough, but 'tis curst ground: sin is so envious, it would leave man nothing.
And if God be so good as to leave man any thing, sins eye is evil because God is good, and puts a sting in it.