A32052:219
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.
That disease is desperate, which to keep is death, and to part with is impossible.
To begin an evil is of ill consequence, it teacheth one to shake hands with shame; but to continue in it, hardens the heart, and leads it till it be past grace.
To begin a sin, is to lay a foundation for a continuance; this continuance is the Mother of Custom, and Impudence at last the Issue.
Fly evil society as an infectious Plague: for ill Company is the corruption of good manners.
Take heed of those Doctrines that oppose the Magistracy or Ministry, and endeavour to promote profane Liberty, and cast down good works, by crying up of free grace.
Take heed of those Doctrines that oppose the Magistracie or Ministry, and endeavour to promote prophane Liberty, and cast down good works, by crying up of free grace.