A32052:527
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.
A good Conscience, and indeed a merry Heart, do but one explain the other.
Here is no surfeiting in this Feast, but a continual Music.
Here is no surfeting in this Feast, but a continual Musick.
Oh, the Rivers of Consolation that flow to them that keep themselves out of the Puddles of this World! though the World give thee nothing but the Water of Affliction, yet let thy Garments be always white.
This gives us an account why the Servants of Christ stand so strictly upon their terms with the world, because they understand in some measure what it is to walk with Christ in white; and it hath left such a tincture and relish upon their souls, that they would not lose it for all the dainty morsels of the world: They had rather indeed walk with Christ in white, than walk with the world in scarlet.