A32052:1566
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.
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.
The wicked spend their days in mirth, and have a brave time on't, as they think; they sing Care away all the day long.
Heaven will not hold any of the wicked, nor shall Hell have any of the righteous to hold.