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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 is against the loving and conjugal Cohabitation of Soul and Body: Sin sowed discord between them, and made them jar: many a falling out there is now betwixt Body and Soul, between Sense and Reason; they draw several ways: there's a self-civil War.
The Soul is become a Prisoner to the Body. (Rather than a free man.)
Too too often the beast is too hard for the man, and the horse rides the Rider. Sense lords it, and domineers over Reason.
Sin is against man's relative good in the world; man's weal or woe lies much in relations: by sin, that which was made for an help, proves an hindrance: Sin hath spoiled society: one man is a Woolf, nay a Devil to another. Sin will not ⟨p. 253⟩suffer Husband and Wife, Parents and Children to live quietly, but sets them at variance: they of a mans own house and bosom, that eat the bread at his Table, are the worst Enemies.
Sin is against man's relative good in the world; man's weal or woe lies much in relations: by sin, that which was made for an help, proves an hindrance: Sin hath spoil'd society: one man is a Woolf, nay a Devil to another. Sin will not