A64808:391
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.
392. 'Tis no wonder that the world care's not for Saints, for the saint is a man of another world in this; were he of the world, the world would love 'its own: and 'tis no ⟨p. 125⟩wonder that the saints care not for this world; For what should strangers, sojourners and pilgrims load themselves with bag and baggage for? no, they declare plainly that they seek a country, and would not always stay in the world, for all the world. The world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.
392. 'Tis no wonder that the world care's not for Saints, for the saint is a man of another world in this; were he of the world, the world would love 'its owne: and 'tis no ⟨p. 125⟩wonder that the saints care not for this world; For what should strangers, sojourners and pilgrims load themselves with bagge and baggage for? no, they declare plainly that they seeke a countrey, and would not alwayes stay in the world, for all the world. The world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.
293. Saying of prayer without praying.
Many men say the Lords-prayer which do not pray it; they (as Augustine before Conversion when he prayed for Chastity) are afraid lest God should hear them; they do not care that God should say Amen, or so be it, though they themselves will say so; they say, Our father, but if he be their father, where is his honour? they say, which art in heaven, but did they believe it, how durst they sin as they do on earth? they say, hallowed be thy name, yet take Gods name in vain; they say, thy kingdom come, yet oppose