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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.
362. He that will have his mind satisfied with earthly things, must not think to attain it so much by increasing the things he ⟨p. 267⟩desires, as by decreasing his desire to the things. Latius regnes, avidum domando spiritum, quam, &c. mortificaton is the best way to satisfaction.
362. He that will have his mind satisfied with earthly things, must not thinke to attaine it so much by increasing the things he ⟨p. 267⟩desires, as by decreasing his desire to the things. Latius regnes, avidum domando spiritum, quam, &c. mortificaton is the best way to satisfaction.
363. Few men get good, though most get goods by greatness, many men grow much the worse, and I never read but of only one Vespasian that was the better, solus imperantium vespasianus mutatus in melius. Magistratus jndicat virum. Of how many may it be said, as Tacitus of Galba, omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset, no man sitter to be an Emperor, if he had not been an Emperor; how many have been good common-wealths men, gallant Patriots, till they came to be states men; as if men minded goodness only to make them great, and then nuncium mittunt virtuti, bid it farewell, as he that always had a fishing net spread on his table till he got a Bishopric, and ⟨p. 168⟩then caused it to be laid aside, saying he had what he fished for.
363. Few men get good, though most get goods by greatnes, many men grow much the worse, and I never read but of onely one Vespasian that was the better, solus imperantium vespasianus mutatus in melius. Magistratus jndicat virum. Of how many may it be said, as Tacitus of Galba, omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset, no man sitter to be an Emperour, if he had not been an Emperour; how many have been good common-wealths men, gallant Patriots, till they came to be states men; as if men minded goodnesse onely to make them great, and then nuncium mittunt virtuti, bid it farewell, as he that allwayes had a fishing net spread on his table till he got a Bishopricke, and