A32052:1996
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.
If the Grave were but looked on as a chamber to rest in;
If the Grave were but lookt on as a chamber to rest in;
And if Faith could but take ⟨p. 236⟩death to be but an undressing, to put on better Raiment; how contentedly then should we be unclothed, that we might be clothed with Immortality!
And if Faith could but take ⟨p. 236⟩death to be but an undressing, to put on better Raiment; how contentedly then should we be uncloath'd, that we might be cloathed with Immortality!
And if the case be so, what a good condition is the dead Saint in!
Lazarus his Resurrection was no cheat; many of the Saints arose, and Christ is risen.