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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.
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.
Before sin, our bodies were Immortal, (for Death and Mortality came in by sin) but now alas they must return to dust! and it's appointed