A32052:1953
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 happy day, when will it come ⟨p. 231⟩when the Devil shall be as unlike to tempt, as our hearts to close?
When we are got once safe to rest, the Devil shall as easily shake God's Throne, as our Happiness.
Death turns the key, and bolts and bars this Enemy out; then, O then thou shalt see this Pharaoh cast dead on the shore.
Christian, expect not as long as any of that Cainish Generation breath, that thou shouldest be long secure.
What though the world speak great words? thou shalt ere long ride in state to Glory; and then let them do their worst.