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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.
129. Time was when professors had heart to serve God, but wanted time and liberty; but now professors (and many of the former) have time and liberty, but want heart.
130. 'Tis an easy matter to teach others what to do, but 'tis an hard matter to learn our own teaching, and do what we teach: Many know to counsel others how to walk, who know not how to walk by their own counsel. To such it may be said more truly then he to Job c. 4.3, 4, 5. Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands, thy words have upholden him that was ⟨p. 31⟩falling: but now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
130. 'Tis an easie matter to teach others what to doe, but 'tis an hard matter to learn our own teaching, and doe what wee teach: Many know to counsel others how to walk, who know not how to walke by their own counsel. To such it may be said more truly then he to Job c. 4.3, 4, 5. Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthned the weake hands, thy words have upholden him that was ⟨p. 31⟩falling: but now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
131. They that stand in slippery places (as all in high places do) had best be much on their knees, and then they are in no great danger of falling, at least of falling dangerously.