A32052:1509
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 defiles his Body: The Flesh is filthy, the Body is a Body of sin, the Members are servants to uncleanness.
Take man from head to foot, from the crown of that to the sole of this, there's no whole (because not holy) part in him.
Their Mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; with their Tongues they use deceit; the Poison of Asps is under their Lips; their Throat is an open Sepulchre; Eyes full of Adultery; Eye-lids haughty; Ears dull of hearing, yea deaf as the Adder; the Forehead impudent as a Brow of brass; both Hands are employed to work Iniquity; Belly ⟨p. 190⟩an Idol-God, the Feet swift to shed blood.
Their Mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; with their Tongues they use deceit; the Poyson of Asps is under their Lips; their Throat is an open Sepulchre; Eyes full of Adultery; Eye-lids haughty; Ears dull of hearing, yea deaf as the Adder; the Forehead impudent as a Brow of brass; both Hands are employ'd to work Iniquity; Belly ⟨p. 190⟩an Idol-God, the Feet swift to shed blood.