A64808:567
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.
48. 'Twas accounted so great an honour to be free of Rome, that who ever was free of that City, was not to be free of any other. Shall not Saints think it honour enough to be free Denizens of the City, the Heavenly Jerusalem which is above?
49. When one presented Antipater King of Macedonia, with a a book that treated of happiness, his answer was [Greek or Hebrew], I am not at leisure. How many are there that cannot find leisure to receive the book and word of happiness sent by Christ to save their souls?
49. When one presented Antipater King of Macedonia, with a a book that treated of happinesse, his answer was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I am not at leisure. How many are there that cannot find leisure to receive the book and word of happinesse sent by Christ to save their souls?
50. Cato was so grave and good a man, that none would sin in his presence: whence it grew to a proverbial Caveat among them one to another, Cave tibi, spectat Cato; take heed what you do, Cato sees you. O how should we stand in awe of the All-seeing God, and say to our own hearts, and one another, Cave tibi, Deus ⟨p. 290⟩[…] ⟨p. 291⟩[…] ⟨p. 192⟩[…] ⟨p. 193⟩