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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.
8. Remove from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me.
9. Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I ⟨p. 43⟩be poor, and steal, and take the Name of my God in vain.
Poverty is no disgrace: for when we came into the world we brought nothing with us, and nothing can we carry out.
If we want things necessary, we ought not to grumble or despair; perhaps the Lord might see it necessary we should so want; however, we ought to use our endeavours for a lawful remedy: if God bless not our endeavours, we ought to bless him, that knoweth what is best for us: we are his Patients, and therefore ought not to instruct our Physician.
If we want things necessary, we ought not to grumble or despair; perhaps the Lord might see it necessary we should so want; however, we ought to use our endeavours for a lawful remedy: if God bless not our endeavours, we ought to bless him, that knoweth what is best for us: we are his Patients, and therefore ought not to instruct our Physitian.