A32052:327
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.
To render a good deed for a good deed, becomes a man; to give evil for good, is diabolical: to repay evil for evil, becomes a sinner; ⟨p. 40⟩but to return good for evil, is the Quality of a Saint.
Injuries should be wrote in dust, but Kindnesses in marble.
Nothing more spurs a man on to be ungrateful, than the sin of covetousness.
Set not your heart upon wealth, For the love of money is the root of all evil.1