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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.
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.
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 conjoynd them, man must not disjoyn them.
127. The most (and most commonly used) policy, is little better then circumstantial dissimulation; be sure therefore not to act the serpent without the dove: 'tis better to act the dove without the serpent, then the serpent without the dove; 'tis better to be pious without policy, then to be politic without piety.
127. The most (and most commonly used) policy, is little better then circumstantiall dissimulation; be sure therefore not to act the serpent without the dove: 'tis better to act the dove without the serpent, then the serpent without the dove; 'tis better to be pious without policy, then to be politick without piety.
128. Its worse to be heart-tied, ⟨p. 30⟩then to be tongue-tied in prayer; 'tis better to be straitened in expression then in affection; if there be much of heart, it matters not how little of art there be in prayer, for what some men most admire, God least regards, viz. volubility of tongue, variety of expression, and ready utterance.