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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.
336. It was a desperate saying of one (a Lawyer) that as he that will not adventure his body cannot be valiant, so he that will not adventure his soul cannot be rich. Men had better lay down their trades, then live by sinning.
337. Surely goods ill gotten will never be good; 'tis better a man should be able to say (as a good man once on his death-bed to his wife) I shall leave thee no great estate, but ⟨p. 254⟩I shall leave thee a good estate; an estate well gotten, then to say, wife, or child, I shall leave you a great, but not good, because an ill-gotten estate. To have an estate with a curse, is to be miserably rich.
338. Heaven and Hell.
That which makes Heaven so full of joy, is, that Heaven is above all fear; and that which makes Hell so full of terror, is, that Hell is below all hope: Heaven is a day which shall never see any approachings of night; and Hell is a night that shall never see any dawnings of day.