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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.
A moderate mind will be content with a moderate estate, and nothing more conduceth to moderation then to know that the time is short, and the Lord is at hand; he that thinks seriously of these two, can neither be careless nor covetous: let us then be carelessly careful, and carefully careless: let us be careful of to day, and careless of to morrow, for sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.
A moderate minde will be content with a moderate estate, and nothing more conduceth to moderation then to know that the time is short, and the Lord is at hand; he that thinks seriously of these two, can neither be carelesse nor covetous: let us then be carelesly careful, and carefully carelesse: let us be careful of to day, and carelesse of to morrow, for sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.
299. 'Tis hard to be cheerful without levity, or serious without melancholy; we verge to extremes. In conveniences and snares attend all constitutions and complexions (and like Syllogisms sequimur deteriorem partem.) Cheerfulness is most like to do the body good, and the soul hurt, and seriousness is most like to do the soul good, and the body hurt, if we take not heed; that therefore ⟨p. 132⟩soul and body may receive good, and no hurt, let us be cheerfully serious, and seriously cheerful; while cheerfulness is the shall, let seriousness be the ballast of the Vessel; if we want ballast, we may move too swiftly; if we want sails, we shall move too slowly.
299. 'Tis hard to be chearfull without levity, or serious without melancholy; we verge to extremes. In conveniences and snares attend all constitutions and complexions (and like Syllogismes sequimur deteriorem partem.) Chearfulnesse is most like to do the body good, and the soul hurt, and seriousnesse is most like to do the soul good, and the body hurt, if we take not heed; that therefore ⟨p. 132⟩