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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.
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.
34. Remember said one to Antigonus that thou art son to a King, and that will keep thee from base courses. And when Philip would have Alexander (who was weary swift on foot) to run in the Olympic games, I could be well content quoth he, provided they were Kings and Princes to run with me. Let Christians then stand on their birth and name, to do nothing below the state of Kings sons, nothing unbecoming such ⟨p. 291⟩as are heaven-borne. Is it for Kings sons O Lemuel? is it for Christians to be vain, proud, covetous? &c. Vellem si non essem Imperator, said Scipio.
34. Remember said one to Antigonus that thou art son to a King, and that will keepe thee from base courses. And when Philip would have Alexander (who was wery swit on foot) to run in the Olympicke games, I could be well content quoth he, provided they were Kings and Princes to run with me. Let Christians then stand on their birth and name, to doe nothing below the state of Kings sons, nothing unbecomming such