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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.
307. The Alphabet or Cross-row.
307. The Alphabet or Crosse-row.
This Text, Matth. 16.24. is the Christians Alphabet or Cross-row: We learn that first which we must always use, as our letters and our vowels, we can spell no word without them. This lesson of self-denial must be first learnt, because always to be practised; for without it we can do nothing, that is, nothing pleasing to God, or profitable to our selves: he that denies himself, doth himself most good, and he that seeks himself, doth himself most hurt. The reason we are such bad scholars, and non-proficients, is because we are so long in taking out this first lesson, dimidium facti qui bene coepit habet. He is more then ⟨p. 238⟩half way, that learns this first line of Religion; till that be learnt, a man cannot proceed to take up the Cross, and follow Christ; if therefore we would be Christ's disciples, let us deny our selves.
This Text, Matth. 16.24. is the Christians Alphabet or Crosserow: We learn that first which we must alwaies use, as our letters and our vowels, we can spell no word without them. This lesson of selfdenial must be first learnt, because alwaies to be practis'd; for without it we can doe nothing, that is, nothing pleasing to God, or profitable to our selves: he that denies himself, doth himself most good, and he that seeks himself, doth himself most hurt. The reason we are such bad scholars, and non-proficients, is because we are so long in taking out this first lesson, dimidium facti qui bene coepit habet. He is more then ⟨p. 238⟩half way, that learns this first line of Religion; till that be learnt, a man cannot proceed to take up the Crosse, and follow Christ; if therefore we would be Christ's disciples, let us deny our selves.