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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.
Sin being a separation between God and man, an interruption of his Communion and Conformity, it must needs be prejudicial and hurtful to him.
Man's sufferings follow at the heels of sin; suffering and sin involve each other: no sooner did sin enter into the world, but death (which is a privation of good) did enter by it, with it, and in it: for 'tis the sting of death; so that sin saith, Here is death, and death saith, Here is sin.
Sin is against man's good; here in time, and hereafter in Eternity; in this world which now is, and in that to come. Particularly,
Against man's body, it hath corrupted man's blood, and made his body mortal, and thereby rendered it a vile body: our bodies, though made of dust, were yet more precious than fine Gold; but when we sinned, they became vile bodies.
Against man's body, it hath corrupted man's blood, and made his body mortal, and thereby rendered it a vile body: our bodies, though made of dust, were yet more pretious than fine Gold; but when we sinned, they became vile bodies.