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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
Mr. Caryl's DIVINE SENTENCES: OR, A GUIDE TO An HOLY LIFE. › To avoid the Curses,
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.
Obedience certainly is a most faithful and familiar help to Salvation.
1To obey is better than Sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of Rams.
It is a Virtue which our Saviour himself preferred before his life, choosing rather to yield that, than not to fulfil his obedience.
It is a Vertue which our Saviour himself preferred before his life, choosing rather to yield that, than not to fulfil his obedience.
The great opposer of Obedience, is Pride, and that is not only the Original of all Vices, but the Ruin of all Virtues.
The great opposer of Obedience, is Pride, and that is not onely the Original of all Vices, but the Ruine of all Vertues.