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Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of…
Canaan's flowings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1653
CANAANS Flowings: OR, More Milk and Honey. BEING Another Collation… › Century 2: The second Century.
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.
124. What certain hazards do men run for uncertain gain! 'tis uncertain whether men shall gain or no, all are but adventurers: 'tis as uncertain whether they shall keep what they have gotten: 'tis certain that if they have gotten much, and have kept it long, yet that they shall be taken from it, or it from them. No trade so gainful as godliness, if it be closely followed.
124. What certain hazzards doe men runne for uncertain gain! 'tis uncertain whether men shall gaine or no, all are but adventurers: 'tis as uncertain whether they shall keepe what they have gotten: 'tis certain that if they have gotten much, and have kept it long, yet that they shall be taken from it, or it from them. No trade so gainfull as godlinesse, if it be closely followed.
125. The best and worst of this world puts us upon longing for ⟨p. 29⟩Heaven; for if the best of the world be good, heaven is much better; and if the worst be so bad, who would not long to go from bad to good.
125. The best and worst of this world puts us upon longing for ⟨p. 29⟩Heaven; for if the best of the world be good, heaven is much better; and if the worst be so bad, who would not long to goe from bad to good.
126. If a Christian be called to be a Magistrate, 'tis not enough for him to be a Christian man, but he must be a Christian Magistrate: he should rather cease to be a Magistrate, then cease to be a Christian: 'tis not enough to say, he is a Christian and a Magistrate, but that he is a Christian Magistrate: when God hath conjoined them, man must not disjoin them.