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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.
246. Busy-idleness.
246. Busie-idlenesse.
Mans idle time is the Devils working time, he doth most when men do least; for as Latimer said, the Devil hath more service done him in one holy-day, then in many working-days.
Mans idle time is the Devils working time, he doth most when men do least; for as Latimer said, the Devil hath more service done him in one holy-day, then in many working-dayes.
247. The hypocritical deceitful pleasures of sin.
The pleasures of sin say unto us, as Jael said to Sisera, turn in my Lord, turn in to me, fear not; and if we ask water, they will give us milk, and bring forth butter in a Lordly dish; but when we are turned in, they (as she did Sisera) cover us with a Mantle, and finding us (by their lullings) to fall fast asleep, they put their hand to the nails, and their right hand to the workmans hammer, and with this hammer they smite us, piercing and striking through our temples; at their feet we bow, we fall; where we bow, there we fall down dead,