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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
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.
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.
17. The Mahometans live in such an exemplary concord, that they seldom break into ill language; but if they do so, a third man will reprove him, with a fie mussul-man, fall out! and all is appeased. Were it not to be wished ⟨p. 282⟩that the Mahometans were Christians, and in this that Christians were Mahometans.