A32052:523
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.
This joy doth arise from that well-grounded hope which that ⟨p. 61⟩Soul hath that keeps himself clean.
Thus David walked, and appeals from man to God to judge him, he had so much of a well-grounded confidence.
So Job walked in white: though his friends blacken him exceedingly, yet he walked in white in his Conscience; he walked in white, notwithstanding all his afflictions from God and his friends.
So Iob walkt in white: though his friends blacken him exceedingly, yet he walkt in white in his Conscience; he walkt in white, notwithstanding all his afflictions from God and his friends.
Hence we may see the happiness of all those who are true to Christ and his ways: Oh, how much better is it than the peace and joy of this World, and the comforts of this life!