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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.
Some men are so unhappy in having happy wits, that they make their wit their happiness, jesting themselves out of all that is earnest, and like fools make sport of every thing, even sin it self; alas! what pity 'tis that men so witty, should have •o more wit then to destroy themselves! a jesting lie or a lie in jest may make a man lye in hell in earnest. Though ⟨p. 169⟩such men look on religion but as a nicety and an impertinent curiosity, as that which imprisons their genius, yet they will one day find to their cost and sorrow, what unpleasant things the pleasures of sin are, and that it will be no brave thing to have sinned in bravery.
Some men are so unhappy in having happy wits, that they make their wit their happinesse, jeasting themselves out of all that is earnest, and like fooles make sport of every thing, even sin it self; alas! what pitty 'tis that men so witty, should have •o more wit then to destroy themselves! a jesting lie or a lie in jest may make a man lye in hell in earnest. Though ⟨p. 169⟩such men looke on religion but as a nicety and an impertinent curiosity, as that which imprisons their genius, yet they will one day finde to their cost and sorrow, what unpleasant things the pleasures of sin are, and that it will be no brave thing to have sinn'd in braverie.
366. All temporal things are troublesome, If they be good it's trouble to forgo them, and when we see that they must be parted with, either we wish that they had not been so good, or that we had never enjoyed them; as some did of Augustine when he dyed. If they be evil, their presence is troublesome; and still we wish either that they were good, or that we were eased of them. Good things are troublesome in the event, and evil things in then […] they in the future, because they shall come to an end, these in present, because they do continue: O[…] men would look to things which are Eternal, for