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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.
234. Times Redemption.
Tis dangerous putting of that to another day, which must be done to day, or thou mayest be undone to morrow. Now or never, now or never; if it be not done now, it may never be done, and then thou art undone for ever: Eternity depends on this moment. The work thou hast to do (viz. working out thy salvation) is great, thy life at longest is but short, and thou canst call no time thine, but the present time. I have read ⟨p. 64⟩of one Archias a Lacedaemonian, that while he was quaffing and rioting, one delivers him a letter, to signify to him that some laid in wait to take his life, and desiring him to read it presently, because 'twas a serious business; Oh said he, seria cras, we will think of serious things to morrow; but that night he was slain. Oh boast not of to morrow, thou knowest not what a day may bring forth: Why wilt thou talk of many years, when this night thy soul may be taken from thee. Oh what wouldst thou give for a day, when it may be a day too late. Consider therefore in this thy day, to day while 'tis called to day, the things of thy peace, lest they should he hid from thine eyes, and while thou like a blind Sodomite dost grope to find a door of hope, fire and brimstone rain about thine ears.
Tis dangerous putting of that to another day, which must be done to day, or thou maist be undone to morrow. Now or never, now or never; if it be not done now, it may never be done, and then thou art undone for ever: Eternity depends on this moment. The work thou hast to doe (viz. working out thy salvation) is great, thy life at longest is but short, and thou canst call no time thine, but the present time. I have read ⟨p. 64⟩of one Archias a Lacedemonian, that while hee was quaffing and ryotting, one delivers him a letter, to signifie to him that some layd in wait to take his life, and desiring him to read it presently, because 'twas a serious businesse; Oh said hee, seria cras, we will thinke of serious things to morrow; but that night he was slain. Oh boast not of to morrow, thou knowest not what a day may bring forth: Why wilt thou talke of many yeeres, when this night thy soule may be taken from thee. Oh what wouldst thou give for a day, when it may be a day too late. Consider therefore in this thy day, to day while 'tis called to day, the things of thy peace, lest they should he hid from thine eyes, and while thou like a blind Sodomite dost grope to finde a doore of hope, fire and brimstone rain about thine eares.