A32052:1550
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 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.
Man by Reason of sin is in death often in this life: but in the life to come, he's in death for ever.
God damns no man but for sin; death is but sin's wages.