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.

Title: 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.

Author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.

Collection: Early English Books Online

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of fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.Marry not where you love not, lest you are tempted to love where you marry not.Heb. 13.4.Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but Whoremon∣gers and Adulterers God will judge.If Nature be defective, it is not the act of the creature, but of God: and since it is his will it should be so, we ought to submit to his pleasure, and not to blame the handy-work of God.Hath not the Potter power over the clay,Rom. 9.12.of the same lump to make one Vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?To please all, is hard; to displease any, may be inconvenient: the Christians surest way is to please him who is all in all.Prov. 16.7.When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.The Righteous man will venture his Credit to secure his Conscience, but will not venture his Conscience for the sake of his Credit.0