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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.
99. When Caesar was about 25 years of age, he wept, that he had lived so long, and done no great exploits; when as Alexander at that age, had conquered almost all the world. How many souls ⟨p. 218⟩that have lived to twenty five, yea to thirty five, it may be forty five, and more years, and have not yet done any thing to the conquering of the world, the subduing of sin, the working out the salvation of their precious souls.
99. When Caesar was about 25 years of age, he wept, that he had lived so long, and done no great exploits; when as Alexander at that age, had conquer'd almost all the world. How many souls ⟨p. 218⟩that have lived to twenty five, yea to thirty five, it may be fourty five, and more yeares, and have not yet done any thing to the conquering of the world, the subduing of sin, the working out the salvation of their precious souls.
100. It's a most shameful thing (said Seneca) to speak one thing and think another. Let not thine heart reproach thy tongue, when thou speakest to God or Man.
100. It's a most shamefull thing (said Seneca) to speake one thing and thinke another. Let not thine heart reproach thy tongue, when thou speakest to God or Man.
101. Epictetus complained that there were many who would be Philosophers as far as a few good words would go, but were nothing for practise.