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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.
26. When Pyrrhus designed war against the Romans, one Cineas said to him, if we overcome the Romans, what benefit shall we have of the victory? We shall then ⟨p. 286⟩answered Pyrrhus, overcame all the rest of Italy with ease; but said Cineas, when we have won Italy, what shall we do then? Why then said Pyrrhus, we will pass into Africa, and conquer Carthage; but said Cineas, when we have all in our hands, what shall we do then? Why then said Pyrrhus, we will be quiet, and take our ease, and make merry: and why said he, may we not do so now without further travel and trouble? Many persons design these and these things, and then give their soul a quietus est, a writ of ease. But he that cannot be quiet in his present state, cannot promise himself quiet in a future state; we many times go from quiet for quiet, and from rest for rest, and lose what we have for hopes of more. Why not quiet now?
26. When Pyrrhus design'd war against the Romans, one Cineas said to him, if we overcome the Romans, what benefit shall wee have of the victory? We shall then ⟨p. 286⟩answer'd Pyrrhus, overcame all the rest of Italy with ease; but said Cineas, when we have won Italy, what shall we doe then? Why then said Pyrrhus, we will passe into Africa, and conq•er Carthage; but said Cineas, when we have all in our hands, what shall wee doe then? Why then said Pyrrhus, we will be quiet, and take our ease, and make merry: and why said he, may we not do so now without further travel and trouble? Many persons design these and these things, and then give their soul a quietus est, a writ of ease. But he that cannot be quiet in his present state, cannot promise himself quiet in a future state; we many times goe from quiet for quiet, and from rest for rest, and lose what we have for hopes of more. Why not quiet now?
27. Plutarch reports of a certain people, that to manifest their disliking and disdaining of men over-much dejected by any affliction,