A32052:1911
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.
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.
O that I could but bring down the price of sublunary things, and raise the things of that other world to their true worth.