A32052:1490
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 quiet of a man's natural Conscience: for it wounds the spirit, and makes it intolerable.
A merry heart doth good like a Medicine; (no Cordial like it:) but a broken spirit drieth the bones, and sucks away the marrow.
A good Conscience is a continual Feast, but sin mars all the Mirth.
Sin is against the Beauty of man, it takes away the loveliness of mens very Complexions.
Sin is against the loving cohabitation of Soul and Body; it hath sowed discord betwixt them.