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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.
He is, but time denies to tell you what, Sum all perfection up, and he is that.
The praises of all others are with a but, and an exception. Naaman was a mighty man, but a Leper; such an one, so and so, but &c. fair, but foolish; serious, but subtle: Let us lay out our hearts then, not on that which is lovely but in part, but on him who is lovely in every part.
346. Contentment.
Whoso in present state himself can rightly bear, Hath neither ill that's past, nor future ill to fear: The one which is no more, ought now no more to fray us, The other which is not yet, as little can dismay us. Not he that hath but little, but he that covets more, Not the contented, but covetous man is poor. The man who hungers not, he needs not bread I think, The man that never thirsts, hath never need of drink.
Whoso in present state himself can rightly bear, Hath neither ill that's past, nor future ill to fear: The one which is no more, ought now no more to fray us, Th'other which is not yet, as little can dismay us. Not he that hath but little, but he that covets more, Not the contented, but covetous man is poore. The man who hungers not, he needs not bread I think, The man that never thirsts, hath never need of drink.