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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.
31. Socrates wittily rebuked the pride of Alcibiades, when he proudly boasted how much land he had that lay together, by bringing him a Map of the world, saying, pray show me where your Land lieth ⟨p. 189⟩here? One prick of a pin would have described it all. Alas, why do we boast? The whole world is nothing to Heaven, and that which we have, is nothing to the whole. Shall we be proud of Atoms and dust?
31. Socrates wittily rebuked the pride of Alcibiades, when he proudly boasted how much land he had that lay together, by bringing him a Map of the world, saying, pray shew me where your Land lyeth ⟨p. 189⟩here? One prick of a pin would have described it all. Alas, why doe we boast? The whole world is nothing to Heaven, and that which we have, is nothing to the whole. Shall we be proud of Atomes and dust?
32. Cato among other things repented of this, that ever he spent 1 day idle. Dionysius the elder being demanded, if he had nothing to do, God forbid, quoth he, that ever it should be so with me. Scipio the elder, said, that he was never less alone, then when most alone, when he was at leisure, he had the greatest business. What a shame is it to Christians to be found idle, and trifling away that time, which Heathens made so much of? Heu perdidt diem. Alas, I have lost a day, said Titus Vespasian, of the day wherein he had done no good.
32. Cato among other things repented of this, that ever he spent 1 day idle. Dionysius the elder being demanded, if he had nothing to doe, God forbid, quoth he, that ever it should be so with me. Scipio the elder, said, that he was never lesse alone, then when most alone, when he was at leisure, he had the greatest businesse. What a shame is it to Christians to be found idle, and trifling away that time, which Heathens made so much of? Heu perdidt diem. Alas, I have lost a day, said Titus Vespasian, of the day wherein he had done no good.