A32052:2087
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 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 ⟨p. 249⟩to all men once to dye, and 'tis well if they dye but once.
Sin is against the good of man's Soul too; and this is much more to man's hurt: 'tis well with his Soul; so that we can more easily and cheaply dye than be damned.