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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.
165. Men should not glory in what they have received, but give glory for what they have received: not only the talent, but the improvement of the talent is to be attributed to God, Lord thy pound hath gained ten pound, Luke 19.16. not only faith to work, but the ⟨p. 42⟩work of faith; not only grace, but the actings of grace is to be attributed to the glory of God, and not to the power or praise of man.
165. Men should not glory in what they have received, but give glory for what they have received: not onely the talent, but the improvement of the talent is to be attributed to God, Lord thy pound hath gained ten pound, Luke 19.16. not onely faith to work, but the ⟨p. 42⟩work of faith; not onely grace, but the actings of grace is to be attributed to the glory of God, and not to the power or praise of man.
166. To be evil at good is bad, but to be good at evil is worse: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
166. To be evil at good is bad, but to be good at evil is worse: they are wise to doe evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
167. While we have any thing to give, and any thing to be forgiven, we should be willingly charitable.