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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.
356. Lawful things are often the occasion of unlawful things: we should use them then (for of them it may be said, as the Apostle of the Law, the Law is good, if a man use it) lawfully. The sins of the old world are described, Luke 17.27, 28. not by unlawful, or things evil in themselves, but becoming such by the abuse. They did eat and drink, &c. which things are necessary to preserve life, and yet by these they lost their lives; they in these things sinned away their lives from the earth, and their souls into bell.
356. Lawful things are often the occasion of unlawful things: we should use them then (for of them it may be said, as the Apostle of the Law, the Law is good, if a man use it) lawfully. The sins of the old world are described, Luke 17.27, 28. not by unlawful, or things evil in themselves, but becoming such by the abuse. They did eat and drink, &c. which things are necessary to preserve life, and yet by these they lost their lives; they in these things sinn'd away their lives from the earth, and their souls into bell.
357. Feasting times are too too often sinning times; 'tis true, its not sinful to feast, if our feasting be not sinful; which that it may not be, we should not spend too much care like Martha, nor too much ⟨p. 161⟩cost and time like Dives, who fared deliciously every day: while we are eating and drinking, we may be dying, (in remembrance whereof the Egyptians used to serve in a deaths head at their feasts) and therefore in eating and drinking, we need be holy, and do that, and all to the glory of God.
357. Feasting times are too too often sinning times; 'tis true, its not sinful to feasi, if our feasting be not sinful; which that it may not be, we should not spend too much care like Martha, nor too much