A32052:645
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.
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.
Meditate, Pray and Read; Repent, and do acts of Charity to others: If you have little to do, you have the more time to provide for a Crown of Glory.