A32052:311
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.
Let your acquaintance be few and good: Cousins, Country-men, and School-fellows, are spenders of money and time.
Let your study be furnished not with many, but with choice books.
Let wisdom direct your actions; the wise man takes care for necessaries, not for superfluities.
Wisdom is Riches indeed, it teacheth a man the Art of contentment in all conditions.
It makes a man not only Master over others, but Conqueror of his own passions.
It makes a man not onely Master over others, but Conquerour of his own passions.