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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.
52. When King Demetrius had sacked and razed the City of Megoera, to the very foundation, he demanded of Stilpo the Philosopher, what losses he had sustained? none at all, said Stilpo, for war can make no spoil of virtue; and 'tis said of Bias, that his Motto was, Omnia mea mecum porto, I carry all my goods with me, viz. his goodness. Ah how should Christians live above these things, & like Habakkuk, rejoice in the Lord, and the exercise of a gracious spirit, and a good conscience, when there is nothing but loss and want on every side.
52. When King Demetrius had sacket and razed the City of Megoera, to the very foundation, he demanded of Stilpo the Philosopher, what losses he had sustain'd? none at all, said Stilpo, for warre can make no spoil of virtue; and 'tis said of Bias, that his Motto was, Omnia mea mecum porto, I carry all my goods with me, viz. his goodnesse. Ah how should Christians live above these things, & like Habakkuk, rejoyce in the Lord, and the exercise of a gracious spirit, and a good conscience, when there is nothing but loss and want on every side.
53. Ariston said, that neither a bath, nor an Oration doth any good, unless it purify, the one the skin, the other the heart; ⟨p. 199⟩that's good, that doth good.
53. Ariston said, that neither a bath, nor an Oration doth any good, unless it purifie, the one the skin, the other the heart; ⟨p. 199⟩that's good, that doth good.