A64808:533
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
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.
14. It was the saying of Metellus, that to do evil was a thing too easy, to do good without danger, was a thing too common; but to do good with danger, was the part of an honest and religious man.
14. It was the saying of Metellus, that to do evil was a thing too easie, to doe good without danger, was a thing too common; but to doe good with danger, was the part of an honest and religious man.
15. Mans nature (saith Plutarch) cannot bring forth any ⟨p. 181⟩fruit, which hath not some blemish.
16. Its said of Cato, that no man saw him to be changed, though he lived in a time when the Commonwealth was so often changed; he was the same in every condition, though he ran through variety of conditions: O that it could be said of the Christians, that they were Catos in our days; that they did exercise & exert the like gracious, humble, and heavenly frames and acts in these times of their prosperity and advancement, as they did, or seemed to do in the days of their adversity, when they were under the feet of them that are now under foot.
16. Its said of Cato, that no man saw him to be changed, though he liv'd in a time when the Commonwealth was so often chang'd; he was the same in every condition, though he ran through variety of conditions: O that it could bee said of the Christians, that they were Catoes in our dayes; that they did exercise & exert the like gracious, humble, and heavenly frames and acts in these times of their prosperity and advancement, as they did, or seemed to doe in the dayes of their adversity, when they were under the feet of them that are now under foot.