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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.
216. Every man loves to be beloved, and is apt to take pleasure in this, that others take pleasure in him; whence that which ought not, doth oft come to pass, men comply with mens humours, and that they may not be thought uncivil will sin for company, and to please others, displease God. Oh Lord, let me never cease to be a good Christian, that I may be thought a good companion. Let me choose rather with Moses to suffer reproaches, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; and rather ⟨p. 56⟩go to prison with Joseph, then to live a Laplin to the lust of the eye and the pride of life, or to be lulled and hushed asleep by the fawnings of this worlds flattery; Let it be enough to me to be beloved of God.
216. Every man loves to be beloved, and is apt to take pleasure in this, that others take pleasure in him; whence that which ought not, doth oft come to passe, men comply with mens humours, and that they may not be thought uncivil will sin for company, and to please others, displease God. Oh Lord, let me never cease to be a good Christian, that I may be thought a good companion. Let me chuse rather with Moses to suffer reproaches, then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; and rather ⟨p. 56⟩go to prison with Joseph, then to live a Laplin to the lust of the eye and the pride of life, or to be lull'd and husht asleep by the fawnnings of this worlds flattery; Let it be enough to me to bee beloved of God.
217. Whatever talent, endowment or estate God hath given thee, improve it not for thy pleasure, but to please him; not to honour thy self, but to honour him; for if he have not the glory, thou wilt have the shame, and cry out at last, Inopem me copia fecit, Oh that I had never been rich, my riches have made me poor; Oh that I had never been fair, my beauty made me proud and wanton; Oh that I had never been learned and witty, my wit hath made me a fool: abused good turns to the greatest evil. Let not therefore the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the rich man in his riches, but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he knoweth and