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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 3: The third 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.
202. The things of this world are (and who would love such things as are) ever wheeling; he that was upmost but even now, is presently ⟨p. 50⟩undermost, as Haman; and he that was undermost is upmost, as Mordecai: trust not then to greatness, for no man is so fixed, but he may fall; despise no mans meanness, for none is so low, but he may rise.
202. The things of this world are (and who would love such things as are) ever wheeling; he that was upmost but even now, is presently ⟨p. 50⟩undermost, as Haman; and he that was undermost is upmost, as Mordecai: trust not then to greatnesse, for no man is so fixed, but he may fall; despise no mans meanesse, for none is so low, but he may rise.
203. When Diogenes heard Zeno with subtle arguments endeavouring to prove that there was no motion, he suddenly starts up and walks; Zeno asking the cause thereof, said Diogenes, Hereby I confute you, and prove that there is motion. Walking with God is the best way to confute them that think religion to be but a notion; walking will prove motion.
203. When Diogenes heard Zeno with subtile arguments endeavouring to prove that there was no motion, he suddenly starts up and walkes; Zeno asking the cause thereof, said Diogenes, Hereby I confute you, and prove that there is motion. Walking with God is the best way to confute them that think religion to be but a notion; walking will prove motion.