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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.
68. Dionysius the younger used to say, that he kept and maintained many Learned men, not because he did esteem them so much, but for that he desired to be esteemed for their sake. May we not fear that many entertain Preachers and Ministers on the like account and for the same reason.
68. Dionysius the younger us'd to say, that he kept and maintained many Learned men, not because he did esteem them so much, but for that he desir'd to be esteemed for their sake. May we not fear that many entertain Preachers and Ministers on the like account and for the same reason.
69. After Dionysius was deposed from his royal dignity and banished, one asked him what good Plato and all his Philosophy had done him? this benefit I have thereby, said he, that I have learned to bear with patience this change ⟨p. 205⟩and alteration of my fortune. And when one judged Socrates by his Physiognomy to be of a churlish sullen, froward, and dogged disposition, for which the people were ready to beat him, knowing Socrates to be one of the meekest and serenest spirited men that could be; Socrates himself said, 'tis true, my disposition is as he hath said, but Philosophy hath made the alteration. Ah! shall they speak more of the efficacy of Philosophy, then Christians of Christianity? God forbid. Oh that Christians would make it appear that they have learned the truth as 'tis in Jesus, and that the grace of God hath appeared to, and taught them, by holding forth the word of life, and showing the virtues of the Lord Jesus Christ, who excelled all that did virtuously.
69. After Dionisius was depos'd from his royal dignity and banished, one askt him what good Plato and all his Philosophy had done him? this benefit I have thereby, said he, that I have learned to bear with patience this change ⟨p. 205⟩and alteration of my fortune. And when one judged Socrates by his Physiognomy to be of a churlish sullen, froward, and dogged disposition, for which the people were ready to beat him, knowing Socrates to be one of the meekest and serenest spirited men that could be; Socrates himself said, 'tis true, my disposition is as he hath said, but Philosophy hath made the alteration. Ah! shall they speak more of the efficacy of Philosophy, then Christians of Christianity? God forbid. Oh that Christians would make it appear that they have learned the truth as 'tis in Jesus, and that the grace of God hath appeared to, and taught them, by holding forth the word of life, and shewing the virtues of the Lord Jesus Christ, who excelled all that did vertuously.