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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.
142. Men should not come together ⟨p. 35⟩barely to meet, least their meeting prove but a bare coming together; without true cordial sincere friendship to improve society, society is but a meeting; and without which (though it be good to meet, yet) the meeting will not be good; such coming together will rather be for the worse then for the better.
142. Men should not come together ⟨p. 35⟩barely to meet, least their meeting prove but a bare comming together; without true cordial sincere friendship to improve society, society is but a meeting; and without which (though it be good to meet, yet) the meeting wil not be good; such comming together wil rather be for the worse then for the better.
143. Many men would willingly be Gods sons, who care not to be Gods servants; but God knows none for sons, but such as serve him: many would willingly be retainers, and wear Gods livery, that do not care to wait, and to go and come at his bidding. 'Twill, (but alas!) 'twill be cold comfort to be called servant, when it shall be said, thou idle and wicked servant. Dives was never the better that Abraham called him son; nor Judas that Christ called him friend. Titles, when they are but titles, entitle to nothing.
143. Many men would willingly be Gods sons, who care not to be Gods servants; but God knows none for sons, but such as serve him: many would willingly be retainers, and weare Gods livery, that doe not care to wait, and to goe and come at his bidding. 'Twill, (but alas!) 'twil be cold comfort to be called servant, when it shall be said, thou idle and wicked servant. Dives was never the better that Abraham called him sonne; nor Judas that Christ called him friend. Titles, when they are but titles, entitle to nothing.