A32052:644
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.
Since your whole life is a Race and a Battle, a Merchandise and a Journey; prepare against night a Rosary of good works, to present unto the Lord.
Since your whole life is a Race and a Battel, a Merchandise and a Journey; prepare against night a Rosary of good works, to present unto the Lord.
Let your sleep be no more than Nature and Necessity requires: and remember, as he that starts first is most like to win the Race; so he that first offers his petition to Almighty God, hath the more early title to a blessing.
Change not day into night, and night into day; be not addicted to idleness and sleep, for that is the way to turn your blessing to a dream.
Change not day into night, and night into day; be not addicted to idelness and sleep, for that is the way to turn your blessing to a dream.
Let not that imagination seize you, that you may lie in bed, having no business immediately to do: for he that hath a Soul, and would save that Soul, hath enough to do to make his calling and election sure.