A32052:509
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 shall walk in white; Christ will honour them, because they have kept their Garments undefiled.1
They that are good indeed, shall have a good name; they shall walk in white.
To keep the Conscience clean, is to keep the Credit clean; and they who are careful not to blot their conversations, Christ will take care of their reputations, that they be not blotted.
The Old Worthies kept their Garments undefiled, and it was by the power of Faith; keeping themselves from the pollutions of the World, they kept themselves a good report. This honour and good report which we get by keeping our Garments undefiled, is sure.