A32052:1563
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.
When Devils fetch away their Souls, whose shall all these things be?
To have a Portion of this world may be a Mercy, but to have the world for a Portion is a Misery.
To have a Portion of this world may be a Mercie, but to have the world for a Portion is a Misery.
To have all good things in this life, and but for this life, is a Misery indeed.
The impenitent sinner goes from all his good to all evil; but the Saint goes from all his evil (and but from a little good) to all good.
Who would not part with Counters for Gold; with a World for Heaven?