A32052:1915
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.
O that I could but bring down the price of sublunary things, and raise the things of that other world to their true worth.
Think not meanly of Holiness; it's the most excellent thing, it is the greatest Riches, and man's highest Dignity.
He that knows the worth of Christ, and the nature of his own Soul, let him not envy those that swell like bladders upon water for a moment, and God puffs them off, and where are they?
How can they look for Heaven when they dye, that thought it not worth their minding whilst they lived?
Whatsoever men pursue below Christ, will yield them but little happiness and comfort in another world.