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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.
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.
367. What a madnesse is it in men to trouble themselves and the world about the Orthographie of a word, as whether we should write Faelix or Felix, and never study to be happy: to trifle away their precious houres about notions, and dye fooles. They are but frivolous, idle and triviall writings, which are onely compact and held together with exquisite choise words, and ranged to just smooth cadencies, unlesse they be stuft full of notable saiyngs and wise sentences, by which a man doth become not onely more eloquent, but more wise, which teacheth us not onely to speake well but doe to well.
368. Philosophy no religion.
This was accounted among many purely true, and truly pure Philosophy, for a man to know him self, to enjoy himself, to centre in ⟨p. 271⟩himself. But I am sure 'tis true and pure religion, to know God, to to enjoy God, to centre in God, so to live in contemplation of him, and in conversation with him, as if there were nothing else in the world to know: as if there were none to think of us, or for us to think upon; none to love us or for us to love.