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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.
Bad men will often tip their tongues with good words, and appear golden-mouthed speakers, when their Hearts are nothing but Brass and Dross.
Bad men will often tip their tongues with good words, and appear golden-mouth'd speakers, when their Hearts are nothing but Brass and Dross.
1Evil men they spoil good speaking with their ill manner of speaking, or their ill meaning in speaking.
Good words do as it were lisp in the mouth of a bad man, and his Heart never keeps pace with his tongue.
Good things done by those who have not good principles, though their box of Ointment may have a fragrant smell among many men, yet there are many dead flies in it, especially one great one, called Unbelief, which makes their whole box of Ointment very unsavoury in the Nostrils of God.