A32052:1910
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 Devil himself may as well expect to shake off his chains, and be restored to his lost glory, as they: O be not deceived; as you sow, so you must reap.
God gives this world oftentimes to his greatest Enemies; he gives glory in another world to none but his Friends and Children.
Nay, let me speak it freely; They which gain this world with their negligence of Heaven, shall at their death lose both.
Many that would be counted wise, drive a great Trade for that which is next to nothing; and that lay in no better provisions than Gravel, Clay, or Dung, when they are bound for Eternity.
They think they make a very wise Bargain, when they sell their Conscience, God, and Heaven, for a little of that which some call Riches.