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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.
Quod petit, spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit, Aestuat, & vitae disconvenit ordine toto. ⟨p. 230⟩Oh! how I like, dislike, desire, disdain, Repel, Repeal, loath, and delight again. My self I follow, and my self I fly, Beside my self, and in my self am I. My self am not my self, another same, Unlike my self, and like my self I am. Self-fond, self-furious, and thus wayward elf, I cannot live without, nor with my self.
Quod petit, spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit, Aestuat, & vitae disconvenit ordine toto. ⟨p. 230⟩Oh! how I like, dislike, desire, disdain, Repel, Repeal, loath, and delight again. My self I follow, and my self I fly, Beside my self, and in my self am I. My self am not my self, another same, Ʋnlike my self, and like my self I am. Self-fond, self-furious, and thus wayward elf, I cannot live without, nor with my self.
We even put God to it to know what to do with us; and if he did not cross us, 'twould be a curse to us; 'tis well for us that 'tis all with us; if it were not bad, it would be worse; there's scarce any thing (though we scarce think it so) that we are more beholding to God for, then for crossing us; for woe to us, if he let us alone, 'tis ten to one but hearts desires and lean ⟨p. 231⟩souls would go together.
We e'ne put God to it to know what to do with us; and if he did not crosse us, 'twould be a curse to us; 'tis well for us that 'tis all with us; if it were not bad, it would be worse; there's scarce any thing (though we scarce think it so) that we are more beholding to God for, then for crossing us; for woe to us, if he let us alone, 'tis ten to one but hearts desires and lean ⟨p. 231⟩