A32052:474
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.
They do not shoot out their Branches this way, or that way, to the World.
The Palm-Tree is always green; green in Winter as well as Summer: It doth not cast its Leaf nor fade.
The Righteous hold-up their Profession in Summers Prosperity, and in the very Winter of Adversity.
The Palm-Tree, it is a Tree that is full of Fruit; good Fruit, pleasant ⟨p. 53⟩Fruit, sweet Fruit, a kind of cordial Fruit.
The Righteous have the Green of Profession, and the fruitfulness of their conversation; and 'tis pleasant Fruit, Fruits of Righteousness, Fruits of Faith, Fruits of Love, and the Fruits of the Spirit.