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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.
Thus those that are not far from Heaven shall never come there: yet I would exhort the worst of men to do good; though they please not God in doing it, yet they displease him in not doing it.
And thus fallen man, if he neglect to do good, sins: If he doth good, he spoils it in the doing of it.
And thus faln man, if he neglect to do good, sins: If he doth good, he spoils it in the doing of it.
Hence we see the necessity of regeneration: we are not born with a pure Heart. A pure Heart, a good Conscience, Faith unfeigned, are the Issues of the new birth.
Education cannot make the Heart pure; it must be Revelation which makes the Heart pure.
Education may change a mans Course, but it cannot change his Nature; that's only done by Regeneration.