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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.
209. If Esau were so much to blame to sell his birthright for a mess of Pottage, which yet was to save his life; how much more are they to blame that Ahab-like sell themselves to work wickedness, that for a title of Honour, esteem of men, or for a little white and yellow dust, which is called Gold and Silver, (mere vanities) will sell their souls? alas these ticklings will turn into stings, and the torment will be the more torment, the more pleasing ⟨p. 53⟩the sin was. 'Twill be but cold comfort for any man to go to Hell with credit; or that others think him gone to Heaven, when he feels himself in Hell.
209. If Esau were so much to blame to sell his birthright for a mess of Pottage, which yet was to save his life; how much more are they to blame that Ahab-like sell themselves to work wickednesse, that for a title of Honour, esteem of men, or for a little white and yellow dust, which is called Gold and Silver, (meere vanities) will sell their souls? alas these ticklings will turn into stings, and the torment will be the more torment, the more pleasing ⟨p. 53⟩the sin was. 'Twill be but cold comfort for any man to goe to Hell with credit; or that others thinke him gone to Heaven, when he feeles himselfe in Hell.
210. 'Tis good to be prepared for that at all times, which may come at any time, viz. death: if it come unsent for, yet it should not come unlooked for. Setting a mans house and heart in order, will not make a man die the sooner: 'twill help a man to die the better. He that when he comes to die hath nothing to do but to die, may well beg to be dissolved, for he can say, I am ready to be offered, if the time of my departure be at hand.
210. 'Tis good to be prepared for that at all times, which may come at any time, viz. death: if it come unsent for, yet it should not come unlookt for. Setting a mans house and heart in order, will not make a man die the sooner: 'twill help a man to die the better. Hee that when he comes to die hath nothing to doe but to die, may well beg to be dissolved, for hee can say, I am ready to be offered, if the time of my departure be at hand.