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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.
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 ⟨p. 161⟩cost and time like Dives, who fared deliciously every day: while we are eating and drinking, wee may be dying, (in remembrance whereof the Egyptians us'd 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.
358. That we might not think riches evil, God gives them to those who are good, yea, to the choicest, the chiefest, the very best of good men, to whom he never gives any thing that is in it self evil: and lest we should think riches the chiefest good, the best good, God gives them to them that are evil, to whom he never gives the chiefest good.
359. Love of pleasure, and fear of suffering, are the two great things, which keep men from minding that which is their chief good; which if enjoyed, would either free them from suffering, or