A32052:1548
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.
God hides his face from sinners whose loving kindness is better than life.
The sinner turns the back to God, and God turns the back to him.
God hears not the sinner's Prayers. God is a God hearing Prayers ⟨p. 193⟩but sin shuts out their shouting and howling.
The sinner is without strength; man's great strength is in Union with God, separation weakens him. To be a sinner, is to be without strength.
Man was once a Sampson for strength; but having parted with his Locks, his strength is departed from him.