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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.
105. Crates threw his Gold into the Sea, saying, ego perdam te, ne tu perdas me. I will destroy thee, lest thou destroy me. If men do not put the love of the world to death, the love of the world will put them to death.
105. Crates threw his Gold into the Sea, saying, ego perdam te, ne tu perdas me. I will destroy thee, lest thou destroy me. If men doe not put the love of the world to death, the love of the world will put them to death.
106. One of the Emperors said of Rome, inveni lateritiam, marmorcam reliqui, I found it built of bricks, but I leave it of marble: Christ always makes us better then he finds us. He finds us a lump of dirt dunghill, a sink of sin and uncleanness, but he purgeth us from dead works and builds us up an ⟨p. 221⟩holy (which is the most glorious) temple unto God.
106. One of the Emperours said of Rome, inveni lateritiam, marmorcam reliqui, I found it built of bricks, but I leave it of marble: Christ always makes us better then he finds us. He finds us a lump of dyrt dunghill, a sinke of sin and uncleannesse, but he purgeth us from dead workes and builds us up an ⟨p. 221⟩holy (which is the most glorious) temple unto God.
107. Alexander said of two of his Courtiers, that the one loved the King, but the other loved Alexander. May not Christ say of professors, that some love Jesus, but few love Christ. Vix diligitur Jesus propter Jesum, Jesus is scarce loved for his own sake. 'Twas Augustine his complaint.