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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.
27. Plutarch reports of a certain people, that to manifest their disliking and disdaining of men over-much dejected by any affliction, ⟨p. 287⟩did condemn them in token of disgrace to wear women's clothes: Seeing they did unman themselves, they should go as women. If thou faint in the day of affliction, thy strength is small; too many Christians I fear would come under the condemnation and disgrace of this Law.
27. Plutarch reports of a certain people, that to manifest their disliking and disdaining of men over-much dejected by any affliction, ⟨p. 287⟩did condemn them in token of disgrace to weare womens clothes: Seeing they did unman themselves, they should go as women. If thou faint in the day of affliction, thy strength is small; too many Christians I fear would come under the condemnation and disgrace of this Law.
28. Seneca hath this similitude to set out the great evil of murmuring under small afflictions. Suppose, saith he, a man to have a very fair house to dwell in, with very fair Orchards and Gardens, set about with brave tall Trees, for ornament; what a most unreasonable thing were it in this man to murmur, because the wind blows a few leaves off the Trees, though they hang full of fruits. If God take a little, and leave us much, shall we be discontent? If he take our son, and give us his own; if he cause the Trees to bring forth fruit, shall we be angry if the ⟨p. 188⟩wind blow away the leaves?
28. Seneca hath this similitude to set out the great evil of murmuring under small afflictions. Suppose, saith he, a man to have a very fair house to dwell in, with very fair Orchards and Gardens, set about with brave tall Trees, for ornament; what a most unreasonable thing were it in this man to murmure, because the wind blows a few leaves off the Trees, though they hang full of fruits. If God take a little, and leave us much, shall we be discontent? If he take our son, and give us his own; if he cause the Trees to bring forth fruit, shall we be angry if the