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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.
361. There is scarce any one thing whereof men and women are more proud (at least wherein and whereby they show their pride more) then apparel; though indeed there's no one thing (sin it self excepted) that we have more cause to be ashamed of then our apparel, for they tell us that we are sinners: Adam and his wife were ⟨p. 266⟩naked, and were not ashamed. Our ornaments are but badges of our sin and shame; and 'tis to this purpose observable, that the same word in the Hebrew which signifies a garment, signifies treachery and prevarication, to show that we have committed treason against God, else there had not been need of a fig-leaf-apron to cover our nakedness. Who now can be proud of being a sinner? Who can find in his heart to be proud of that, which tells him, that he hath lost his innocency? Surely he that hath sinned himself into shame, should be ashamed of his sin: and though it be a shame, and a sin to go naked, yet when we are clothed with our garments, we should be clothed with shame as with a garment.
361. There is scarce any one thing whereof men and women are more proud (at least wherein and whereby they shew their pride more) then apparel; though indeed there's no one thing (sin it self excepted) that we have more cause to be asham'd of then our apparel, for they tell us that we are sinners: Adam and his wife were ⟨p. 266⟩naked, and were not ashamed. Our ornaments are but badges of our sin and shame; and 'tis to this purpose observable, that the same word in the Hebrew which signifies a garment, signifies treachery and prevarication, to shew that wee have committed treason against God, else there had not been need of a fig-leafe-apron to cover our nakednesse. Who now can be proud of being a sinner? Who can finde in his heart to be proud of that, which tells him, that he hath lost his innocency? Surely he that hath sinned himself into shame, should be ashamed of his sin: and though it be a shame, and a sin to go naked, yet when we are clothed with our garments, wee should be clothed with shame as with a garment.