A32052:2094
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.
Thus by sin man that was the Emperor of Eden, is banished from his native Country, and must never see it more, but in a new and living way, for the old is stopped up: all we have (our Food and raiment) is but lent us, we are only Tenants at will.
Thus by sin man that was the Emperour of Eden, is banisht from his native Country, and must never see it more, but in a new and living way, for the old is stop'd up: all we have (our Food and raiment) is but lent us, we are only Tenants at will.
The sin of man had left the Son of man nothing when he came into ⟨p. 250⟩the world for the recovery of man.
If he will come in the likeness of sinful flesh, he must speed not like the Son of God, but Son of man.
Nay, the venomous Nature of sin is such, that it fills that good which God left us with vanity and vexation, with bitterness and a curse, sweat and sorrow: many a grieving Brier and pricking Thorn stick fast to him.