A32052:169
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.
But he that regardeth not those Mercies he receives, mindeth not his own interest, and despiseth his best Friends.
A Meadow affords no pleasure to a Swine, but the Mire doth: even so, an ungodly man, that only pretends to Christianity, is as a fish ⟨p. 19⟩upon the shore, that lives a while, but with no delight, because out of its own Element.
Afflictions and miseries happen by Gods permitment, and whom he loveth he chastiseth: those griefs are for the good of them that love God; therefore beware of sin, that makes your sorrows bitter, and mind not the Rod so much, as him from whom the Rod comes, lest that teach you both to fret and faint.
Afflictions and miseries happen by Gods permitment, and whom he loveth he chastiseth: those griefs are for the good of them that love God; therefore beware of sin, that makes your sorrows bitter, and minde not the Rod so much, as him from whom the Rod comes, lest that teach you both to fret and faint.