A32052:517
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.
With the Prince of Eunuchs he had tender favour: he told him he would not disobey God to please man; yet he did not rail against him, and call him a stubborn fellow, because he would not bow to Baal.
And afterwards Daniel, as great a man as any in that Province, he walked in white. God hath created Testimonies of honour for his people from some men of the world, yea they many times put white Garments upon them. God doth sometime keep up their honour in the World,1 who will not defile their Garments.
This may teach us the readiest way to the White Robe, to the Robe of Honour: It is to keep our ⟨p. 60⟩selves from sinful practises. Certainly they who please God, he can make the World to honour them. If God approve of us, he can make the World to approve of us too. If God see our Garments in the dirt, and spotted with the filth of the World, it will spoil the Honour we should have in the World.