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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.
Few men judge themselves happy or unhappy, according to what they are, but by comparing themselves with others; where all go naked, none are ashamed: Many augment their misery, by seeing others more happy; and yet think themselves happy when they see others more miserable. We many times gather our sorrows from others joys, and our joys from others sorrows. We bless our selves, when we see them below us, and yet think all we have to be no blessing, when we look on them that are above us. Lord, let not me think my good the less, because others have more; or my evil the more, because others have ⟨p. 239⟩less; but let me learn in all estates to be content, and to welcome the will, come how it will.
Few men judge themselves happy or unhappy, according to what they are, but by comparing themselves with others; where all goe naked, none are ashamed: Many augment their misery, by seeing others more happy; and yet think themselves happy when they see others more miserable. We many times gather our sorrowes from others joyes, and our joyes from others sorrowes. We blesse our selves, when we see them below us, and yet think all we have to be no blessing, when we look on them that are above us. Lord, let not me think my good the lesse, because others have more; or my evil the more, because others have ⟨p. 239⟩lesse; but let me learn in all estates to be content, and to welcome the will, come how it will.
309. Some men while they are wits in jest, are fools in earnest; for commonly they are the trifling things of the world, whom serious men have to do withal, when they have nothing else to do: their greatest business is to laugh, and their reward to be laughed at.
309. Some men while they are wits in jest, are fools in earness; for commonly they are the trifling things of the world, whom serious men have to doe withal, when they have nothing else to doe: their greatest businesse is to laugh, and their reward to be laught at.