Owen Feltham
Owen Feltham was an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political, containing 146 short essays. It had great popularity in its day. Feltham was for a time in the household of the Earl of Thomond as chaplain or secretary, and published Brief Character of the Low Countries (1652).
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Trending topics shown first"He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die."
"Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves."
"Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there."
"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand."
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