A32052:1538
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.
Sinners are likened to Dogs, and 'tis a common name to sinners▪ Without are Dogs.
Sin separates the sinner from God, they are without God; sinners are said to be afar off, for they depart from God, and go into a far Country.
Sin separates the sinner from the sight of God.
Our happiness lies so much in the sight of God, that it hath the name of the beatifical Vision.
Sin hath separated the sinner from the life of God, such a life as God lives.