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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.
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.
33. Tully thought him not worthy the name of a man, that spent ⟨p. 290⟩a whole day in pleasures of the flesh. And Socrates had such a vile esteem of sin, that he thought it one of the greatest torments of men in another life, to be bound to the sins they most delighted in in this life. And Seneca said of himself, I am too great, and borne to greater things then that I should be a slave to my body. Oh Christians what do you do more then others? will not you live above the flesh and deeds thereof.
33. Tully thought him not worthy the name of a man, that spent ⟨p. 290⟩a whole day in pleasures of the flesh. And Socrates had such a vile esteeme of sin, that he thought it one of the greatest torments of men in another life, to be bound to the sins they most delighted in in this life. And Seneca said of himselfe, I am too great, and borne to greater things then that I should be a slave to my body. Oh Christians what doe you doe more then others? will not you live above the flesh and deeds thereof.