A32052:549
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.
The principle or spring of the work must be good: 'Tis possible for one to do a work that's good for the matter of it,1 and to have some good ends in it, and yet not to do it out of a right principle. Unless the principle be good, the work's not good.
As the Fountain is, such are the Streams that come from it.
As the Tree is, such is the Fruit that grows upon it.
The Thorn hath not a principle in Nature to put forth a Grape: The Thistle hath not a principle in ⟨p. 66⟩Nature to put forth a Fig: An ill scented Vessel, whatsoever passes from it must be ill scented.