A32052:1564
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.
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?
This the Saint doth, and 'tis a good exchange I trow.