A32052:1511
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.
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.
Look within, their inward part is wickedness; the Gall is a Gall of bitterness; the Spleen is affected, yea infected with Envy and Malice.
Sin defiles the Soul: God's Image was more in and o• the Soul than Body of man, and Sin's Ambition and Envy is to deprive the Soul of this Image.