A32052:1485
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, curse, and toil, keep company.
Sin is against man's comfort and joy: In sorrow shalt thou eat all the days of they life: not one whole merry day.
The woman hath a peculiar sort ⟨p. 187⟩and share of sorrow: for the time of conception, breeding, bearing and birth, are tedious.
Sin is against man's health: hence come all diseases and sicknesses: till sin there were no such things.
Let a man take the best Air he can, and eat the best food he can; let him eat and drink by rule, let him take never so many Antidotes, Preservatives and Cordials, yet man is but a crazy sickly thing for all this.