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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.
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 ⟨p. 270⟩they are good here, and will be better hereafter.
366. All temporall things are troublesome, If they be good it's trouble to forgoe them, and when we see that they must be parted with, either we wish that they had not beene so good, or that we had never injoyed them; as some did of Austine when he dyed. If they be evill, their presence is troublesome; and still we wish either that they were good, or that we were eased of them. Good things are troublesom• in the event, and evill things in then 〈…〉 they in the future, because they shall come to an end, these in present, because they doe continue: O〈…〉 men would looke to things which are Eternall, for ⟨p. 270⟩they are good here, and will be better hereafter.
367. What a madness is it in men to trouble themselves and the world about the Orthography of a word, as whether we should write Faelix or Felix, and never study to be happy: to trifle away their precious hours about notions, and dye fools. They are but frivolous, idle and trivial writings, which are only compact and held together with exquisite choice words, and ranged to just smooth cadencies, unless they be stuffed full of notable sayings and wise sentences, by which a man doth become not only more eloquent, but more wise, which teacheth us not only to speak well but do to well.